Full Idea
The same kind of practice produces a good life and a good death.
Gist of Idea
The wisdom that produces a good life also produces a good death
Source
Epicurus (Letter to Menoeceus [c.291 BCE], 126)
Book Reference
Epicurus: 'The Epicurus Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B. /Gerson,L. [Hackett 1994], p.29
A Reaction
This is the kind of old fashioned observation which we would do well to hang on to. The ideal of dying well has vanished from our culture.