The living would envy the Dead.
I read that somewhere.
“But look here, Doctor, wouldn’t this nucleus of survivors be so grief stricken and anguished that they’d... well, envy the dead and not want to go on living?”
- President Merkin Muffley (one of Peter Sellers’ three characters in Dr. Strangelove).
"Them that die will be the lucky ones!" - Long John Silver • Treasure Island