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Maybe a cheeky answer but I'd live as epicurus and hide a lot of my writings in somewhere I know they would be found 2400 years later

I actually changed my opinion on this, the lack of pain alone is actually still painful because it still an absence of pleasure. We are made to be filled with pleasure so the very lack of it is actually painful, I had this acutely after having a small procedure I was in basically a non state but then I remembered there is no non state it's always either pleasure or pain so the very absence of any pleasure DESPITE being completely pain free ended up being painful to me. So in the end I would be E…

Thanks Cassius, yes I think I was referring to numbness or the exaggerated of some idealistic state of tranquility, rather than a concrete phenomenological state. Also I would still rather be Epicurus for a week (assuming I return to myself after this week) as I would learn how to live joyfully in the midst of extreme pain which could help me later on.

Although if I was to die, I would choose shepherds life.