对死亡的赞颂，大都口是心非，词不达意，Aeschylus除外：

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus. (525–456 B.C.)
Frag. 250 (trans. by Plumptre).