Long and useful. We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse. Eat right, exercise daily, live clean, die anyway. Today is the last day of some of your life.
Death is a once in a lifetime experience.
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. I only wish I'd realized it sooner. Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.