DEATH IS A CONCISE, YET FAIRLY ACCURATE EXPRESSION TO DESCRIBE all that is unbearable in man's existence. In his youth a man may hardly realize that time has its limits. At this stage his destiny may seem to him too narrow rather than too short; as well as trivial, dull and monotonous. These causes of discontent persist, but as the years roll by with a speed which astounds each man in turn, the even more desolating prospect of the approaching end looms up. These two aspects of human finiteness are moreover linked, since perpetual youth would enable man always to appeal to the future, whereas the approach of death limits his destiny to its present mediocrity.