Story 1How should we face suffering and death?
Epicurus — Death is nothing to us
The question that opens it
If death is absent while we exist and we are absent when death arrives, what reason remains to fear it in advance?
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Epicurus argues that good and bad depend on sensation and death is the deprivation of sensation, so death is nothing to us.
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Epicurus
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §4.1 Fear of Death; Letter to Menoeceus 124–127
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Whether the argument addresses the pain of dying, survivors’ loss, and future possibilities deprived by death remains open to separate objections.
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Epicurus
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §4.1–§4.2, death, pleasure, and later objections
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