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Will Rogers

If you live life right, death is a joke as far as fear is concerned.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This view holds that a life lived well drains death of its scariness, turning it into something you can nearly laugh at. Fear of dying, on this account, fades for those who have lived rightly, so death becomes a joke rather than a threat.

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