Overcoming the Fear

It’s the thing that most human beings hate the most, death. It is a thing that creates so much pain, suffering, sorrow and a feeling of emptiness in humans. This is as Epictetus would say because of our judgment about it. This might be true, we hate and fear death because we look at it as a force that takes our loved ones away from us. If we looked at death the way Billy Pilgrim did in Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut we would change our judgment and say “So it goes” as Billy Pilgrim did. He had a very special judgment on death since he had experiences do much during his life. Of course war changes your judgment on war. A civil person who hasn’t had so many encounters with death will see it in a different way. Epictetus tells us something very contradicting, “Let death and exile and everything that is terrible appear before your eyes every day, especially death.” 21. How can he tells us this if it is one of the things that hurt us the most. In a way this would be the only way to change our judgment about death, just as Billy Pilgrim did. Experiencing death a lot is the only way to get ovet the fear of it.