system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
We have already been dead

During my undergraduate degree i remember reading an article that basically was saying how we shoulnt fear death as we have already been dead before. This is such a long shot and vague but has anyone got any idea what it is???
gpt
You might be thinking of the "symmetry argument" from Lucretius. It starts with the observation that before we were born, we didn't exist. (We weren't "dead," just not in existence.) After we die, we also don't exist. If we're not bothered by our non-existence before birth, why should we be bothered by our prospective non-existence after death?