Death and Life in the Spirit World

I feel the approach of death, and I feel it with joy.

Claude Louis Berthollet to his friend Jean Antoine Chaptal

Let those who surround the dead shed no tears; for they may see on the colourless lips and in the dim eyes a vague smile at the delights perceived by those who have just entered into a better world.

The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit World—Opinions and Experiences from Eminent Sources, J. R. Francis, Chicago, The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1903