QuoteIn addition to acknowledging that quote, we must dispel the fear that we will not accomplish what we have wanted prior to dying.
I like the echo of Montaigne here;
"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still less of my unfinished garden."
Montaigne was a brilliant Latinist (it was his first language, due to an unusual education prepared for him by his father), and was an early Renaissance figure to not only read Lucretius but praise him highly, and quote him liberally in his own essays.