1 jA good name is better than precious ointment,
and kthe day of death than the day of birth.
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life’s good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
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