Stoic Saturday: Epictetus on Death

I drown without fear, without crying out, or accusing god, but as one who knows that what is born must likewise die. For I am not eternal, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day. Like an hour, I must come and, like an hour, I must pass away. 

Epictetus, and Gill, Christopher, ed., and Hard, Robin, trans. The Discourses of Epictetus. London: Everyman: 1995, 84