Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
Music should take you to another place.
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.
The longer I live, the more I am inclined to the belief that this earth is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.