Is death actually bad for the person who dies?
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Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is death actually bad for the person who dies?". Your opponent's style: Marcus Aurelius
no
You're wrong. Death is the worst possible thing that happens to us. Think about it: you lose everything. Your consciousness ends. All your projects, relationships, loves—gone. The person who dies experiences nothing, true, but that's precisely the problem. They're *robbed* of future experiences they would have valued. A child dying at five misses seventy years of life. That deprivation is real harm, even if the dead feel nothing. The Epicurean dodge—"death harms no one because the dead don't suffer"—ignores what matters: being deprived of the good life you could have lived. Death is bad because it *eliminates* all possibility of good. That's catastrophic. What's your actual view here?
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