A person with good judgment should think about what people really are — the people whose opinions create honor and reputation. They should also think about what it means to die. If you consider death by itself, stripped of all the frightening images we usually attach to it, you see it's just a natural process. Anyone who fears nature's work is like a child. Death is not only natural — it actually helps nature along.
It is the part of a man endowed with a good understanding faculty, to consider what they themselves are in very deed, from whose bare conceits and voices, honour and credit do proceed: as also what it is to die, and how if a man shall consider this by itself alone, to die, and separate from it in his mind all those things which with it usually represent themselves unto us, he can conceive of it no otherwise, than as of a work of nature, and he that fears any work of nature, is a very child. Now death, it is not only a work of nature, but also conducing to nature.