Death
event · 4 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Death the idea · Death the deity
death · dissolution · dying · allotted span · released from the body
in the texts
Meditations
The recurring event/theme of bodily death treated as a natural dissolution to be accepted without fear.
that within a very little while both you and he will be dead, and soon after not even your name will be left.
— so too think it no great thing to die after very many years rather than tomorrow.
Death, like birth, is a mystery of nature:
Epinomis
The end of the wise man's earthly life, after which his soul becomes 'one out of many' and attains blessedness.
of him I also assert, both in jest and in earnest, that when one of his like completes his allotted span at death, I would say if he still be dead, he will not partake any more of the various sensations then as he does now, but having alone partaken of a single lot and having become one out of many, will be happy and at the same time most wise and blessed, whether one has a blessed life in continents or in islands;
Gorgias
The moment of bodily death, defined as the disconnection of soul from body, each retaining the marks of its former life.
death, as it seems to me, is actually nothing but the disconnection of two things, the soul and the body, from each other.
Letters to Lucilius
The end of life, argued in Letter 65 to be nothing to fear, and in Letter 66 to be equal in all men regardless of the manner or timing of dying.
All these were equally mortal, even though death let the life of some proceed further, cut off that of others in the midst of their bloom, and broke off the very beginnings of others.
but the death of all is equal.
What is death?