# Death is nothing to us

- Id: `death_is_nothing`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/death-is-nothing-to-us/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `8c22896da28ae2aa8ae225df52f36e8d32bd670dcf73612923d27e1d758384cf`

## Summary

For Epicurus, death is nothing to us: what has dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation no longer concerns us.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 7 passages across 7 works, including Tusculan Disputations, Enchiridion of Epictetus, Letter to Menoeceus. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:epicurus.principal_doctrines:2"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "mort n’est rien",
    "mort n'est rien",
    "death is nothing",
    "absence de sensation",
    "deprivation of sensation",
    "στέρησις αἰσθήσεως"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 7,
    "passages": 7,
    "thinkers": 5,
    "traditions": 5
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
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    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicureanism",
        "name": "Epicureanism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/epicureanism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.enchiridion",
        "title": "Enchiridion of Epictetus",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/enchiridion/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.letter_to_menoeceus",
        "title": "Letter to Menoeceus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/letter-to-menoeceus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.principal_doctrines",
        "title": "Principal Doctrines",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/principal-doctrines/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
        "title": "Outlines of Pyrrhonism",
        "author": "Sextus Empiricus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/outlines/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_gorgias",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-gorgias/"
    }
]
```