If the infinite absence before I was born never troubled me at all, why should I so dread the very same absence that follows after I die?
Death, then, is nothing to us and matters not a whit — just as the ages of time that passed before we were born never troubled us.
First asked by Lucretius
This question probed whether the fear of death is rational. Epicurus and Lucretius argued that death is merely the absence of sensation, symmetrical w…
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