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AN 6.14 - A Good Death Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato Source: https://suttacentral.net/an6.14/en/sujato License: CC0-1.0 Numbered Discourses 6.14 2. Warm-hearted A Good Death There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants: “Reverends, mendicants!” “Reverend,” they replied. Sāriputta said this: “A mendicant lives life so as to not have a good death. And how do they live life so as to not have a good death? Take a mendicant who relishes work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They love these things and like to relish them. A mendicant who lives life like this does not have a good death. This is called a mendicant who enjoys substantial reality, who hasn’t given up substantial reality to rightly make an end of suffering. A mendicant lives life so as to have a good death. And how do they live life so as to have a good death? Take a mendicant who doesn’t relish work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They don’t love these things or like to relish them. A mendicant who lives life like this has a good death. This is called a mendicant who delights in extinguishment, who has given up substantial reality to rightly make an end of suffering. A beast who likes to proliferate, enjoying proliferation, fails to win extinguishment, the supreme sanctuary from the yoke. But one who gives up proliferation, enjoying the state of non-proliferation, wins extinguishment, the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.”