Philosophy · Ancient Philosophy
A topic within Ancient Philosophy, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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Epicurus
Death is nothing to us, because while we exist death is not present, and once death is present we no longer exist, so fearing it rests on a confusion rather than a real threat.
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Argues in verse that everything is atoms and void, that the soul dies with the body, and that grasping this is the cure for the fear of death and of the gods.
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