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So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter a

Source: Letter to Menoeceus.
-- Epicurus, ( BC 341-BC 270), Greek philosopher; He maintained that all objects and events -- including human lives -- are in reality nothing more than physical interactions among minute indestructible particles.

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