Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.
Themes
Death
Mortality as a teacher, not a morbid hobby.
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able — be good.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.