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Blog EntrySep 27, '07 5:19 PM
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Death is no concern to us. All things good and bad are experienced through sensation, but sensation ceases at death. So death is nothing to us, and to know this makes a mortal life happy. Life is not improved by adding infinite time; removing the desire for immortality is what's required. There is no reason why one who is convinced that there is nothing to fear at death should fear anything about it during life. And whoever says that he dreads death not because it's painful to experience, but only because it's painful to contemplate, is foolish. It is pointless to agonize over something that brings no trouble when it arrives. So death, the most dreaded of evils, is nothing to us, because when we exist, death is not present, and when death is present, we do not exist. It neither concerns the living nor the dead, since death does not exist for the living, and the dead no longer exist.

-Epicurus

csayasa wrote on Oct 5, '07
Amen. Based on the concept of perceptive reality, a living can only perceive another is dead but can never prove the existence of death by and to himself. To prove to oneself that death exist requires one to become dead and return to life with the facts of death. The reason one is unable to accomplish such could simply mean that there is no such thing as death, except our perception of it. Simply stated, death symbolizes any kind of loss. It could be as physical loss of a love one, relative, friend or a more profound loss as that of enthusiasm, rationality, will, self-esteem, respect, dignity, value etc., which ironically is the greater evil than the perception of death itself. Visit my philosophy blog at http://howfallibleareyou.blogspot.com for many insights to reality and life.
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