" Death’, for me, was my non-existence in a hudred years’ tie and, in a few hundred years’ time, my nonexistence in a boundless far future. Even in that distance future wars would break out, children would be sent to reformatories, some would prostitute themselves with homosexuals and some woukd have fairly healthy sex lives.

But then I wouldn’t be there. "

― Kenzaburō Ōe , Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids