It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.