Stoics and Grief

Link: A Stoic chat with ChatGPT

Source: https://aeon.co/essays/do-not-weep-for-your-dead-how-to-mourn-as-the-stoics-did

As the classicist Margaret Graver argues in Stoicism and Emotion (2007):

The founders of the Stoic school did not set out to suppress or deny our natural feelings, rather, it was their endeavour, in psychology as in ethics, to determine what the natural feelings of humans really are. With the emotions we most often experience they were certainly dissatisfed; their aim, however, was not to eliminate feelings as such from human life, but to understand what sorts of affective responses a person would have who was free of false belief.

Therein lies the importance of mental preparation.