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Full Idea
Whatever was in you of fire, departs into fire; what was of earth, into earth; what of air, into air; what of water, into water. There is no Hades, nor Acheron.
Gist of Idea
Each of the four elements in you is entirely scattered after death
Source
Epictetus (The Discourses [c.56], 3.13.15)
Book Ref
Epictetus: 'The Discourses, The Handbook, Fragments', ed/tr. Gill,C [Everyman 1995], p.177
A Reaction
This sort of remark may explain why so few of the great Stoic texts (such as those of Chrysippus) survived the Christian era.