Fear of death

Somehow I doubt that this would reassure my grandparents (although I wish it would!)...

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born.

(William Hazlitt, essayist, via AWAD)