Sometimes I have thought that it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would sharply emphasize the values of life. We should live each day with gentleness, vigour, and a keenness of appreciation which is often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurean motto of "eat, drink, and be merry" but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.