Epicurus Accepting Death

Death is inevitable for the human race; a fact provoking much speculation and anxiety. Death is horrifying to people for many reasons such as not knowing what to presume from death, they terror the retribution of gods, they fear not achieving certain things in life, leaving loved ones behind, and simply not wanting to die. Epicurus, though, claimed that we should not fear death because, “Death, the most frightening of bad things, is nothing to us; since when we exist death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist” (Letter to Menoeceus, 125). His intake on death holds reasonable grounds because we are not alive to witness how it feels to be dead so one can say death is the end. Some of us will die in ways out of
Before we were born into the world we did not feel any pain therefore we won’t feel pain after death. When you die there is no feeling because there is no body, which means we should not fear death. Epicurus unlike other philosophers believes that when we die, everything about us dies, the physical and the soul. There is no after life or the soul’s immortality, this idea might be frightening for many people, especially those of a religious background. We as selfish beings want to believe that even though we are no longer in this world, we will exist somewhere else or our soul remains
He also did not mean the instant of death, of which we may or may not have an experience and which may be good or bad, but of which we have no experience until that moment we die. What he meant was, being dead in a more spiritual way. If we accept the metaphysical implication that we no longer exist and that we no longer have sentience when we are dead, then his argument is sound. What comes to mind when I read Epicurus, Letters to Menoeceus is the saying “don't worry; be happy" or the famously known expression “you only live once” (YOLO). These sayings are frequently used as a cheerful advice to boost one's emotional state and cast wearisome worries away. No one should be living a life of constant stress or misery but sadly many do. Living one's life that way would not be logical, especially when humans, search for happiness and only have this life to attain that goal according to Epicurus. Epicurus‘s beliefs can be seen in the mottos of "don't worry; be happy” or “you only live