Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

Death preserves an ideal.

The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.