Death is Nothing to Us - Epicurus (341-270BC)

Just came across this ancient branch of philosophy "Epicureanism" as I am super bored now and need to read something that can put me to sleep. I've been coughing incessantly, especially at night due to this super irritable throat. Feel like ripping it off and disassociate it from my head. Anyway, while flipping through this boring book, saw this diagram that depicts what Epicurus, an ancient Greek Philosopher, had taught about human's fear of death:


(sorry, iphone cannot zoom properly, click on the diagram to see it close-up)

Fear of Death
"One of the obstacles to enjoying the peace of a tranquil mind, Epicurus reasons, is the fear of death, and this fear is increased by the religious belief that if you incur the wrath of the gods, you will be severely punished in the afterlife. But rather than countering this fear by proposing an alternative state of immortality, Epicurus tries to explain the nature of death itself. He starts by proposing that when we die, we are unaware of our death, since our consciousness (our soul) ceases to exist at the point of death.
To explain this, Epicurus takes the view that the entire universe consists of either atoms or empty space, as argued by the atomist philosophers Democritus and Leucippus. Epicurus then reasons that the soul cannot be empty space, because it operates dynamically with the body, so it must be made up of atoms. He describes these atoms of the soul as being distributed around the body, but as being so fragile that they dissolve when we die, and so we are no longer capable of sensing anything. If you are unable to feel anything, mentally or physically, when you die, it is foolish to let the fear of death cause you pain while you are still alive"
(The Philosophy Book by DK, Pg64-65) [in my humble opinion, they could have used a more interesting name to this book]

With all due respect, due to my limited wisdom, I cannot understand the second paragraph with regards to "atoms" and how the soul can be associated with these lil' atoms and what's this occupation that I've just learned "atomist philosopher" and does it earn a lot of money, but..... the last part makes some sense to me (in bold)

And so... let me try to interpret... the gist of the matter here is that (the diagram best explains it), Epicurus argues that the goal of life is happiness and that our unhappiness is caused by fear and our main fear is that of death. So if we can overcome fear of death, we can be happy.

And death is the end of sensation, so it cannot be physically painful. Death is also the end of consciousness, thus it cannot be emotionally painful as well. So, there is nothing to fear about death and again if we can overcome fear of death, we can be happy.

Agree? No? Let me think.. wah.. worse.. cannot sleep.. bad idea to read such heavy stuff before bedtime:(