Lucretius' words therefore rang out with a terrible clarity: "Death is nothing to us".
Many people nearing death achieve a clarity as to what is really important in life and want to share that understanding with others.
All of this raises an intriguing possibility: if in the future, medicine allows us to know the date of our death with greater clarity (see sidebar: "The day you will die"), then it could change us in more ways than we realise.
With the character now a spirit in her seventh season appearance, Tal felt that Jo's death brought her "clarity" and "a different level of comfortability".
The title of the film, taken from a comment she made, was "Sometimes Life Is Bearable". Szymborska (whose full name is pronounced vee-SWAHV-ah shimm-BOR-skah), wrote about weighty subjects — the nature of the soul, totalitarianism, death — with beguiling clarity and a sense of wonder.
The members have found a way to combine the brutal clarity of death metal with the eerie atmospherics of black metal.
In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Cohen spoke about the prospect of death with calmness and clarity: "I am ready to die.
Once more, Hardiman, who was an Irish supreme court judge until his sudden death last year, writes with clarity and with a lawyer's eye as he describes what the authorities did to prevent the book being published.
Angelo's intellectual appetite for the order of the past, which is the clarity of death, can't be met by Claudio, who lives in the future (he is about to become a father); it won't be met by Barnardine, who lives in the present and has a will at least as strong as Angelo's, probably stronger (because not socialised, not politically adjusted).
