What is your life worth to you?
'Everything,' you might say, since if you lose your life you lose everything. On the other hand, Epicurus's answer appears to have been 'nothing':
Become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us. For all
good and evil consists in sensation, but death is deprivation of
sensation.... So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us,
since so long as we exist death is not with us; but when death comes,
then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or
the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no
more. (1)
Epicurus seems to be saying that death does you no harm. If ...