To mourn is to pity oneself. The dead feel nothing. The mourner does not pity the dead. He pities himself for having lost the living.

Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923-1996) American science fiction writer
“The Soul-Empty Ones,” Astounding Science Fiction (1951-08)
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