2. 3 Components
What a person would have to be like in order
to adopt the Epicurean view of death
Why this isn’t the sort of person anyone
would want to be
What’s right about the Epicurean view
3. Shared Assumptions
Death is a kind of non-existence.
Distinction between whether being dead is
bad, as opposed to the moment of death or
the process of dying.
4. What Makes Death Bad for Us?
A state of affairs is bad for us if it thwarts our
desires.
So death is bad for us because it thwarts our
desires.
An advantage: Allows that in some cases,
death isn’t bad for us, because it doesn’t
thwart any of our desires.
