some emphasis to helping others rather than our individual selves. Believing that we exist only in a single world, the natural world that we share with other living creatures, and that we have no special first-class tickets that allow for travel to continuous existence in other spheres at the end of our journey in this life. In our human distresses, we have only each other to turn to for help. She died in 1999, after contracting pneumonia. References 1911 births 1999 deaths American humanists American birth control activists American women's rights activists People associated with Planned Parenthood Secular humanists