Why do we die? / by T. Bodley Scott.

  • Thomas Scott
Date:
[1921]
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Credit: Why do we die? / by T. Bodley Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the working years of a man’s life, but under modern conditions of improved sanitation the term of life should be at least four score years and ten, and this extra 20 per cent, should not be a time of pain and sorrow, but of peace and rest, with still some capacity for work. Many of us used to be content to answer the first question, “ Why do we die ? ” by saying our time had come. The unreflecting but so-called religious person seemed to think that God had placed a time limit against each indi¬ vidual when he came into the world. This is pure fatalism, and unworthy of the name of reason or of faith in the Divine justice. “ Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die ” is almost the logical position of such minds. We can¬ not hope to solve individually or in detail the mysteries of life and death, why one is cut off in the full tide of his energy, and another, who seems to be
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