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quote - mortality salience - (see below)

• The lesson is that humans are powerful
  • precisely because they are
    • temporally-bound,
    • finite creatures.
• We are born and we die, no exceptions.
• Byron’s “Prometheus” tells us that there is a lot of power
  • in dying and, particularly,
  • in knowing that we will die.
• To face one’s mortality is “a mighty lesson”,
  • beyond the grasp of any (hypothetical) god.