"Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole."

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Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

— Mary Roach