Fear of death is universal and our pathetic/heroic attempts to overcome that fear informs the kind of collective behaviour that we create in order to live without going mad.

We’re born out of nothingness and we develop a conscious which can’t conceive of the nothingness to which we’ll return. Of course you have an overwhelming fear of ‘not existing anymore;’ that’s what death brings, an end of existence.

If you’d like to read some of the ways that others combat this fear, I would suggest reading Becker’s The Denial of Death and gathering some information about Terror Management Theory.

I dismiss the ghost fear straightaway because I don’t believe in ‘spirits’ of any kind.

We exist. We did not and we will not and that creates an awesome fear.