"Cattle die, kinsmen die;
one day, you die too
but words of praise willn't perish
when a man wins fair fame."
--Sayings of the High One
Venerating a corpse does it no good, and vilifying it does it no harm.
(I suppose I should add a qualifier - I mean either a non-cryonically suspended legal corpse, or an information-theoretically-dead corpse. That covers the case if one were to extend "venerate" to include include maintaining-in-cryonic-suspension)
This is our monthly thread for collecting these little gems and pearls of wisdom, rationality-related quotes you've seen recently, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages, and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions.