I am sufficiently competent to make up my own mind, and leave prior notice to this effect, concerning my time for leaving behind this earthly life without advice from outsiders.

Finally, organic compounds form the basis of all earthly life and constitute a significant part of human endeavors in chemistry.

This experience sometimes included a sense of despair, that earthly life itself had been a cruel illusion or joke.

Smoking represented pleasure, transience and the briefness of earthly life as it, quite literally, went up in smoke.

As a result, the difficulties of earthly life would disappear.