It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EpicurusWhatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.
EpicurusDeath is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
EpicurusThe wise man neither rejects life nor fears death... just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
Epicurus