Voltaire Quote

"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."

Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

My interpretation of this quote was Voltaire stating that humans add a lot of extra things to events, and that animals are lucky because they are able to live a pure and undisturbed life. I also believe he was expressing that he felt that instead of these add ons being a good thing, they were an annoyance and that we, as humans, should live without them.