Death, then, "is nothing to us, so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist".
Epicurus wrote, "So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist.
Tyan found himself pondering the lessons of a humanities course he and Sun had taken called Visions of Mortality, which asked, "Is death bad for a person, and if so, why?" He thought about a quote from Epicurus: "When we exist, death is not present, and when death is present, we do not exist," though he didn't find it especially comforting.
Ravelstein believes that "nothing is more bourgeois than the fear of death" and that nothing much exists after death.
Of all human illusions, the hardest to give up is the belief that consciousness exists after death.
The central concern driving the many supernatural investigations of these luminaries was the not inconsequential question of whether life exists after death.
If the living animal no longer exists after death, then neither does Socrates.
How then can we repeat, with Epicurus, that: Death is nothing to me, since while I exist, my death is not, and when my death occurs, I do not exist?
Epictetus does not argue that we should welcome death but he holds that we should not fear death because we will not exist after death.
Death, Epicurus insists, is nothing to us, since while we exist, our death is not, and when our death occurs, we do not exist (LM 124 25); but if one is frightened by the empty name of death, the fear will persist since we must all eventually die.
