Montaigne on death

“Go out of the world as you entered it. The same passage that you made from womb to life, without feeling or fright, make again from life to death. Your death is part of the order of the universe, the life of the world”. (Montaigne)

Epicurus teaches us that death is nothing to fear. Life is feeling or sensation; when life ends, there is no feeling. Death does not hurt. He believed that man is a bundle of atoms. You have eternal life only in so far as your atoms are recycled forever in a myriad of forms.

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