Epicurus considered death, and therefore quite rightly said, “ὁ èáíáôïò ìçäåí ðñïò ἡìáò” (Death does not concern us); with the explanation that when we are death is not, and when death is we are not (Diog. Laert., x. 27). To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil. Therefore ceasing to be ought to disturb us as little as not having been.
