Do you say to your rational mind, 'You are dead; corruption has taken hold of you'? Does your mind then also excrete waste? Does it graze and feed like oxen or sheep, so that it too should be mortal like the body?
Sayest thou unto that rational part, Thou art dead; corruption hath taken hold on thee? Doth it then also void excrements? Doth it like either oxen, or sheep, graze or feed; that it also should be mortal, as well as the body?
Either everything happens for a reason as part of one great design — and then it makes no sense for a single part to complain about what's good for the whole. Or, if Epicurus was right, atoms cause everything and life is just random collision and death is just scattering — so why worry about any of it?
Either all things by the providence of reason happen unto every particular, as a part of one general body; and then it is against reason that a part should complain of anything that happens for the good of the whole; or if, according to Epicurus, atoms be the cause of all things and that life be nothing else but an accidentary confusion of things, and death nothing else, but a mere dispersion and so of all other things: what doest thou trouble thyself for?