What an incredibly sad situation to be given this horrible condition and to have no belief in anything... I feel sorry for this sad man as he has nothing to look forward to but a certain finality of death in his world. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
When faced with our own mortality, when the undeniable finality of death is understood to be real and true, God, such as he is, disappears. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
All our religion, our art, our poetry, our loves, our devotion to great undertakings, and not the least the great undertaking of children and family, is a waving of little flags of protest against the finality of death. (firstthings.com)