" To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness; let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death.’ Michel de Montaigne, Essais (1580) "

― Val McDermid , Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime