Fear of death and non-existence

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• Epicurus · Letter to Menoeceus · R. D. Hicks translation

  “Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable.”

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• Epictetus · Discourses

  “I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”

  QuoteFear of death and non-existenceContemplating mortality

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  Topics

  • Anticipatory anxiety and future worry

  Lenses

  • Present moment and use of time
  • Dichotomy of control
  • Memento mori

  Modules

  • Memento Mori and the View from Above