The men Rodin carved here are facing impending death.
What he feared most now was not the impending death, but how his parents would bear the pain of losing him after his death.
There are those, of course, who would adopt the epicurean motto of " Eat, drink, and be merry ", most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death.
The other is a Swiss trial in which the drug is give alongside psychotherapy to people who have a terminal condition to help them cope with the profound anxiety brought on by impending death.
