Gilgamesh, opening his mouth, said to Enkidu: “My friend, who can escape death? ... For all human beings the days are numbered, Our activities are a breath of wind. How is this, already you are afraid of death! What is the use of calling yourself a hero?! Do you want me to go first? If I fall, I leave behind me a name that endures. Men will say of me: Gilgamesh has fallen in fighting, trying to fell the cedars”.