Letters 24.23

And in another passage: “What is so absurd as to seek death, when it is through fear of death that you have robbed your life of peace?” And you may add a third statement, of the same stamp: “Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.”

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 24.23, translated by Richard Mott Gummere