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Originally Posted by *Nikki*
Because they left their lives unfinished and this leaves us all feeling sad. This is always true when someone dies young.
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But doesn't death mean exactly that their lives are finished? I'd hate to think that someone might tell me my life was "finished" when I retire at 65 even though I am still alive and kicking.
I think Neil gaiman said it best here:
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Originally Posted by Sandman #43 "Brief Lives"
"But I did okay, didn't I? I mean I got, what, fifteen thousand years. That's pretty good, isn't it? I lived a pretty long time."
"You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less."
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I'd say it's the quality of the life that is important, not the duration.