How is it possible for men not to rejoice each day over the pleasure of
being alive?  Foolish men, forgetting this pleasure, laboriously seek
others; forgetting the wealth they possess, they risk their lives in their
greed for new wealth.  But their desires are never satisfied.  While
they live they do not rejoice in life, but, when faced with death, they
fear it - what could be more illogical?  People fail to enjoy life
because they do not fear death.  No, it is not that they have no fear of
death; rather, they forget how close it is.
	- Kenko, *Essays in Idleness*