When death comes knockin' who ya gonna call?(Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics )(Book Review) Skeptic (Altadena, CA) | March 22, 2005| | COPYRIGHT 2005 Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

A Review of Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics by James Warren. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 240 pp. $57.21 ISBN 0199252890

SKEPTICS MUST FACE DEATH without the consolation of a religious person's belief in an afterlife. When our heart stops beating and our neurons stop firing, there will be no pearly gates waiting for us. We have no image of a transcendent suprahuman being to provide us with solace as the end approaches. So, when Death comes knockin', who ya gonna call? Epicures, the death-buster, that's who! says James Warren, author of Facing ...

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