"Do not allow your death to be a slander against mankind and earth, my friends: that I beseech of the honey of your soul.
In your dying your spirit and your virtue should still glow, like a sunset around the earth; or else your dying has failed you.
Thus I myself want to die, so that you my friends love the earth more for my sake; and I want to become earth again, so that I may have peace in the one who bore me."