He argued that the fear of death is natural, but it is not rational. "Death," he said, "is nothing to us, because when we are here, death is not, and when death is here, we are gone." Now this is often quoted, but it's difficult to really grasp, to really internalize, because exactly this idea of being gone is so difficult to imagine.
Decía que el miedo a la muerte es natural, más no es racional. "La muerte, decía, no es nada para nosotros", porque cuando estamos aquí, la muerte no está, y cuando la muerte llega, ya no estamos ". Ahora, esto se cita con frequencia pero realmente es difícil de entender, de internalizar, porque exactamente esta idea de no estar es difícil de imaginar.