... to face death alone, as a purely material event, leading nowhere but physical decomposition. Part of me even respects the stoic heroism of such a stance.
The Stoics had a developed sense of the afterlife. It was cyclical in Heraclitus but without the morally progressive character that infuses eastern re-birth philosophies.
By the way, it seems to me that Hillary comes across to many as the quite typical exemplar of stoic virtue, which is an apartness that might be summed up by AS's phrase, "unbearable reasonableness". LOL.
