Abstract
Against the epicurean position, the rationality about
the preoccupation with death is discussed by the present paper.
For this purpose two elemental thesis are proposed. The first
one supports that it is rational to worry about death before
dying because we conceive the idea of a discourse in which the
impossibility of interfere in the world to satisfy our pending
goals is lamented. The second thesis is that death afflicts any
prejudice only to whom wonders about it, because this
question encloses the idea that one transcends by means of the
achievement of our purpose, for that it is presupposed that
with death the interests and aim are kept constant.