The gasping cry (sounding like a
croak) heard just when a baby is
born (ie. as
lungs fill with air) and the exact same sound heard just when a person
dies. (ie. as
lungs collapse)
"Listen to the newborn infant's cry in the hour of
birth--see the
death struggles in the final hour--and then declare whether what begins and ends in this way can be intended for enjoyment."
Soren Kierkegaard's "Journals and Papers," vol. 1, ed. Howard V. Hong et al. (Bloomington, Ind., 1967), p. 338.