Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.
EpicurusMen are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.
EpicurusIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus