What nonsense it is to say that the frightening aspect of death is not that it will make us suffer when it arrives, but that anticipating its arrival makes us suffer now! I mean, what's the point in getting upset at the prospect of something which isn't upsetting when it's there? So death, the ultimate horror, is nothing to us, because it coincides only with the time when we don't exist, not when we do exist. In short, death is nothing to the living and nothing to the dead either, because it doesn't affect the living and the dead no longer exist.