RIP: Stephen Jay Gould on statistics, cancer and death: 'It has become,
in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something
tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes
that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out
I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however,
I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find
nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.'
[Cancerguide].
