I apologize if the point has already been made, but it occurs to me to approach the question in these terms;
Epicurus said that "gods there are", and that those gods dwell incorruptibly in a perpetual state of eudaimonia--of pleasure, unmixed with any pain or disturbance.
He did not say that "gods there once were"--that they were living in incorruptible pleasure and peace, but they are no more because they've all killed themselves out of ennui and desperation ages ago.
If the gods still find pleasure in living through all the ages of the this world, we may surmise that eternity would also do good service to an Epicurean. But we shall not have it.
QuoteYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
-Thoreau
Something to think on--remembering while we think that Hamlet is a tragedy only because he couldn't make up his mind!
Quote[...] The draught swallowed by all of us at birth is a draught of death.
Vatican Saying 30
There's a Greek anti-baptism for a Greek 'anti-Christ'!