Make Stoicism A Habit

No Shame With Death


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There is a great article written recently on the Forge publication on the site medium by writer Amy Shearn titled What Happened When I Went Full Stoic. In it there is a fantastic section detailing how Stoicism was made for times like this. Meditations book 4.5 is especially made for times like this. We avoid death but as Marcus Aurelius writes this is not a thing of which man should be ashamed. Death should be embraced as a certainty by reasonable creatures. Even in the face of the Coronavirus we can still adjust and live a full life

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Make Stoicism A HabitBy Matt Schmidt