There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.


A Very Easy Death (ed. Pantheon Books, 1985)

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men...

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men...

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men...

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men...