BEFORE WE DIE
Every extraordinary person has a particular mission which he is called upon to fulfill. When he has accomplished it, he is no longer needed on earth in the same form, and Providence uses him for something else. Mozart died at thirty- six. Raphael at practically the same age. Byron was only a little older. But each of them had accomplished his mission perfectly, and it was time for them to go so that others might still have something left to do in a world created to last a long while. By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, From D. J. Enright, The Oxford Book of Death, pgs. 5 – 6
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