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fear God”. It had been mentioned in a few sources that he quoted “Death is nothing to us; when we exist, death is not present; and when death is present, we don’t exist. Consequently it does not concern either the living or the dead, since for the living it is non-existent and the dead no longer exist” in his Letter to Menoeceus 125. This quote had been written in many different forms in a variety of sources so we don’t know the exact words Epicurean had quoted in his letter but we can sort of get a rough idea of what he was trying to imply. This quote tells us that it was naturally impossible to experience your own death. This was because at the time when you were alive, you had the ability to see and experience the world but at the moment you died, your senses would die and so you weren’t able to see beyond your death. As your senses did, your soul died with the body. …show more content…

He developed this theory from an Ancient Greek Philosopher of atomic theory, Democritus. Epicurean believed that every human had a soul made of “very fine atoms” and so when it came to dying, the combinations of the atoms that made up the soul will break apart. According to Epicurean this explained the death and breakdown of the human body and soul. This meant that death was the end of everything – in other words when you die, you die and forget everything from your previous life (your memory dies along with your body and

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