On the Saturday following my visit, a week before Einstein was taken to the hospital, a Princeton friend of long standing and intimacy went with Einstein to the hospital to see Einstein's daughter, who was ill with sciatica. This friend writes that after he and Einstein left the hospital that Saturday, "we went for a long walk. Strange to say, we talked about our attitudes toward death. I mentioned a quotation from James Frazer in which he said that fear of death was the basis of primitive religion, and that to me death was both a fact and a mystery. Einstein added, 'And also a relief.'"