Billy Meets the Romans (Epictetus 3)

I think the Handbook is really similar to Slaughterhouse 5 in the sense that like the book it talks about the uncontrolable things in life and simply learning to live with them (the whole "So it goes" philosophy). Even family is second to duty in the Handbook, and all that you can control is yourself, which is even more than Billy Pilgrim can do. Death is seen in a similar light, it happens but it is not tragic. Bad things happen but you just keep going, liek with Billy Pilgrim, everything is pretty much all right with Epictetus.