Hence these desires are to be shunned. Fortunately natural and necess oppary desires are relatively easy to satisfy. Their satisfaction would produce the life most free of impure pleasures mixed with pain. The ideal state for the believer in Epicurean ethics would be a life of simple quiet pleasure. This life would be filled with the simple pleasures of a wholesome diet, environment, and only the necessary creature comforts for sustaining a quiet life, lived with close friends.
Hedonism also includes the minimizing of pain.
Epicurus argued that a good clean life will, with luck, be relatively free of sickness and suffering of physical pain. To these he replied that we should not fear death because the only evil is pain, which is a sensation, and after you're dead there is no more sensation. If they were to intervene in human lives, it would disturb their divine ataraxia. Atomism is deterministic , but its ethics is normative . That means Epicurus holds a view of reality which says in effect humans are nothing more than vast collections of material atoms all which behave according to deterministic laws.