Question about death to Atheists.

[downbeatplumb]

I don't even know what that is supposed to mean.

What it means is that the word death in the bible is translated from the Greek word Thanatos which means separation.

http://biblehub.com/greek/2288.htm

2288 thánatos (derived from 2348 /thnḗskō, "to die") – physical or spiritual death; (figuratively) separation from the life (salvation) of God forever by dying without first experiencing death to self to receive His gift of salvation.

Thanatos was the greek god of non-violent death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatos

In Greek mythology, Thanatos /ˈθænətɒs/[1] (Greek: Θάνατος [Ancient Greek: [tʰánatos]] "Death",[2] from θνῄσκω thnēskō "to die, be dying"[3][4]) was the personification of death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to, but rarely appearing in person.

In Greek vase painting Thanatos was depicted as a winged, bearded older man, or more rarely as a beardless youth. He often appears in a scene from the Iliad, opposite his brother Hypnos (Sleep) carrying off the body of Sarpedon. In Roman sculptural reliefs he was portrayed as a youth holding a down-turned torch and wreath or butterfly which symbolised the soul of the dead.

http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Thanatos.html

In fact nowhere can I find Thanatos as separation apart from where you have quoted.

In fact the only other usage of the word appears to be a Freudian term to do with a self destructive impulses.