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Death & Perspective

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Steve Jobs
Who died 5 Oct 2011, previously in a 2005 Stanford commencement speech