Citation

Stoyles BJ. Think (Lond) 2012; 11(30): 73-84.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Royal Institute of Philosophy, Publisher Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S1477175611000376

PMID

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Abstract

We often judge that death is bad for the person who dies - that my death, for instance, will be bad for me when it occurs. It is not easy, however, to explain, justify, or defend this judgment. As Epicurus argued more than 2000 years ago, death is 'nothing to us' because 'when we exist death is not present, and when death is present we do not exist.' (Letter to Menoeceus, 124-125)

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