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http://societyofepicurus.com/r…bout-philodemus-on-death/ The meditation of the wise man is a meditation on life, not on death. – Wisdom 6:1, Humanist Bible The beginning parts of the scroll On Death are very fragmentary and very little can be deciphered, but the scroll gets easier to read in its later portions. After studying its contents, I found it refreshing that a scroll on how death is nothing to us took such pains to dismantle the death-based cultural forms two millenia prior to Nietzche’s…