The mind, body and soul are connected so the soul must die with the body, therefore the soul must be mortal, therefore one will not experience anything after death, so one must not fear death. This is the Super Sparknotes version of Book III of Lucretius On the Nature of Things. It seems so neat on such a laid out page, but when broken down and considered with respect to nature and human existence, it becomes much more complex, as many things often do when taken out of the context of academic theory and applied to, for lack of a term better, real life. Lucretius introduces his argument with an explanation of why death evokes such fear and at the same time assuring that it will eliminate those fears by disproving them. “For as children tremble and fear everything / in the dark night, so we are sometimes afraid in the light / of things which should be feared no more than / than those which children tremble and imagine will happen.” (3.87-89) He begins with "now I maintain that the mind and the soul are united / with each other and make each other's nature [...] the other part of the soul, spread throughout the body , / obeys and is moved by the direction and impulse of the mind” (3.135-3.140). It further explains the connection between mind, body and soul with "and neither the power of the body nor that of the soul is seen as capable / of feeling sensation separately for itself without the energy of the other, / but the sensation is ignited and lit through our flesh / by shared and interdependent movements on both sides. / After all, the body never creates itself / nor grows by itself nor is it seen to last after death” (3.333). more revealing... middle of the paper... after the life, it is almost necessary to ensure goodness. Lucretius' ideas about the afterlife are as good as any other, if his Epicurean ideology is useful to some they are wonderful, but they are no different from other ideas about the afterlife because they all share the objective of eliminating fear. He writes: “Certainly there is an unalterable limit to the life of mortals, / and it is impossible for us to avoid death and not die” (3,1076-1080). accept it as nothing, think nothing of it and live life because it's all he has. In truth, death is indeed inevitable, but one must experience it with curiosity, seeking comfort and motivation in it if necessary, and living life as if it were all one has. Works Cited Lucretius, translated by Walter Englert. On the nature of things. Newburyport: Focus Publishing, 2003. Print.