PHLB09H3 : Reading Notes
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Death is claimed to be an evil of privation, for it deprives its victim of whatever goods in life that person otherwise would experience. Lucretius states that death cannot harm us because we seize to exist after death. Nor do our selves which existed in the past concern us now: we feel no anguish about them . Human existence is comprised of the joining of the body and the spirit. Even if the nature of our mind and the power of our spirit do have sensation after they are torn from our bodies that is still nothing to us, who are constituted by the conjunction of body and spirit. There is nothing for us to fear in death, that he who does not exist cannot be unhappy, and that when immortal death snatches away a mortal life it is no different from never having been born .
