Such are, I suppose, the distresses of one who is in need of.

Is he deprived of eyes?
to be blind is misery.

Is he destitute of children?
not to have them is misery.

These considerations apply to the living, but the dead are neither in need of the blessings of life, nor of life itself.

But when I am speaking of the dead, I am speaking of those who have no existence.