Below is an excerpt from my “Final Exam,” which was the final paper I had to write for the final class of this semester. I hope to, after making some moderate edits, upload the paper to my blog, but for now, here is a sneak peak:
I, considering personal experience, strongly suspect that if men were to consider their death they’d be better people. I am not yet even speaking of the judgment to come. What is the final thing the spirits show Ebenezer but his death? Is he enticed with Heaven or threatened with Hell? No, for he had made money his greatest aim only to discover what gain such gains were to a corpse. What is it Socrates says of his own profession but that philosophy is a preparation for death? So, I proclaim that a wise man should say, “Memento mori,” for in a sense, without facing death we cannot know God.
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