Death is not the greatest loss in life

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. -Norman Cousins
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Death is a debt we all must pay. -Euripides
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. -Arthur Schopenhauer
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery