Cicero on the fact that the dead don’t need anything

“But should we grant them even this, that people are by death deprived of good things; would it follow that the dead are therefore in need of the good things of life, and are miserable on that account? …

Can those who do not exist be in need of anything? To be in need of has a melancholy sound, because it in effect amounts to this — they had, but they have not; they regret, they look back upon, they want.

Such are, I suppose, the distresses of one who is in need of. Are they deprived of eyes? to b...