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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain
Funny, Life, Death
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 9, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.