Don Cupitt on Life After Death
“On this [Richard Bentley’s] view life after death, along with the fears of witchcraft, evil spirits, bad luck and so forth, is just another of those superstitious terrors from which modern science has mercifully delivered us. We can now follow Lucretius and say that death is nothing to us, no more to be feared than falling asleep, not an event in life that we will experience but simply life’s horizon. Other people’s deaths are indeed part of life and have to be coped with: hence the Importance of our funerary rites. But my own death is not part of my life and I can disregard it.”
Only Human p 207-8.