"Time in a very real sense does not exist. It is a human invention, a construct we have made to help us pass through a seemingly endless stream of living. If we can learn to think of time in this philosophical way, rather than in the utilitarian one that breaks time up into minutes, seconds, schedules, and appointments, we find that the difference between a long life and a short life is nonexistent. A butterfly may only fly with its beautiful wings for a few weeks. This fact makes it no less beautiful or less real. When the butterfly is gone, it has still lived. A baby, with us for such a short time, was still alive. He may have been born dead, but he lived. And that life had meaning and humanity.
Life cannot be measured by years, but by impact. With impact as a yardstick, the life of a baby, even though stillborn is as long, as rich, and as meaningful as any life the world has ever witnessed."
- from Stillborn: The Invisible Death by John DeFrain
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