
#310 Donald Robertson- Stoicism for The Modern World
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
Death Is the Common Lot of All Mankind
The stoics think we bury our head in the san too much. They talk about how death is the common lot of all mankind. Like ebenese scrooge in charles dickens christmas caroll, the ghost of future christmas yet to come drags him into the future and shows him his own funeral. Ad seneca used to say that as he'd put his head head down and he went to sleep, he would say to himself, maybe i won't wake up to morrow. Wih sons eo, e prite, sombere.
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