# Loeb Letter to Menoeceus prints the argument that death is nothing to us

Date: 1925

## The fact

Hicks prints the Menoeceus letter’s claim that death is nothing to us because when we are, death is not, and when death is, we are not. The dated English instrument is the Loeb. It is consolation, not a hospital protocol.

## Context

Fear of punishment after death is a documented mental burden in many later churches. A public argument against that fear is a mental-health-adjacent path of medium confidence. It does not treat tumours.

[Epicurus](/people/epicurus) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, museum, archive, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Diogenes Laertius, Lives, Loeb / Hicks vol. 2 (https://archive.org/details/livesofeminentph02dioguoft; Internet Archive / Loeb Classical Library scan).

## Significance

Consolation can free attention for living care. It is not a vaccine and not a ward.

Consolation can free attention for living care. It is not a vaccine and not a ward.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Epicurus: https://factrail.ai/people/epicurus

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Epicurus
- https://archive.org/details/livesofeminentph02dioguoft

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-menoeceus-death-nothing