Epicurus argues that death is nothing to be afraid of, “For all good and bad consists in sense-experience, and death is the privation of sense-experience.” Epicurus believes that everything in the world is made up of atoms, and the space that atoms move in is called the void . Everything that is intangible belongs to the void, “And the void can neither act nor be acted upon but merely provides motion through itself for bodies.” Thus, Epicurus argues that the soul is not part of the void as it can act independently, and hence it is tangible and made up of atoms. The atoms of the soul reside in our physical bodies, and give us sensations. We make meaning out of these sensations to form perceptions about what is good and bad, and hence Epicurus
