How do overcome my fear of dying?
Epicurus. The wise seek neither to escape from life nor death, for life does not trouble them and death does not seem an evil. Just as with food, they don’t choose the largest portion, but the most delicious. They do not desire the longest period of time, but pluck the most pleasant fruit. The Fourfold remedy: Nothing to fear in God. Death is not worth a worry. Good can be attained, and evil can be endured Palladas: All human must pay the debt of death, nor is there any mortal who knows whether he shall be alive to-morrow; learning this clearly, O man, make thee merry, keeping the wine-god close by thee for oblivion of death, and take thy pleasure with the Paphian while thou drawest thy ephemeral life; but all else give to Fortune’s control. Plutarch: Life and death are only the prelude to the Great Initiation. We are like those being initiated into Mysteries. At first they wander along tortuous ways and through wearisome mazes, which end in a shuddering passage through darkness full o
