death and mortality · Atlas

in the texts

The inevitability and uncertainty of death as a source of dread and philosophical inquiry.

for through sin, as I have said before, death entered into the world;

And who will keep my memory after death, since time gives all things over to oblivion?

"Unless death takes someone away from these things first, it is impossible, as the years go on, not to come to the trial of this condition.

The inevitability and nature of death, treated as something to accept without fear.

All of a day, dead long since;

In a little while I am dead, and all is past and gone.

And if they did sit there, would the dead perceive it?

The Stoic theme of confronting death daily and viewing life as composed of equal, self-contained days each approaching the end equally.

"It is an evil to live under necessity;

"I have lived, and the course that Fortune gave I have run.

"It is troublesome," you say, "to have death before one's eyes.