Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it - so at least it seems to me - is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river - small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grow wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will be not unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

BERTRAND RUSSELL How to Grow Old from Portraits from Memory

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About Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was educated at King's School, Grantham, and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1665. When Newton's master's studies were interrupted by the Bubonic Plague, he returned home and studied the nature of light and the construction of telescopes. During this period, Newton also developed the basic concepts for differential and integral calculus. He returned to Cambridge in 1667 and became a Fellow of Trinity College. Newton continued investigating the forces acting on falling objects and between orbiting planets and deduced three dynamic principles, which later became known as Newton's Laws of Motion. Newton's influence and impact redefined kinetics, or the science of motion. Newton was elected to the Royal Society in 1672 and served as its president from 1703 until his death in 1727