And his absence declarated as desired status seems quite static to me.

On the contrary. The striving for reaching absence of pain or “hedony” as Epicurus called it, is a life-spanning goal.

The absence of pain as an ultimate value is something I need to go into depth in order to explain it better so I need to write an article on it soon.
Until then, let me just say, that I am talking about the absence of pain in the Epicurean sense.

Alonzo Fyfe (AKA the Atheist Ethicist) tackled it…

I believe I beat Alonzo to the punch.