>>11295795Epicurus's take on it helped me a lot. I used to think about it a lot.
I could get a quote pic but am lazy. Basically it's "death means nothing, since when we are, death hasn't come, and when death has come we are not."
i'll never be dead, since if I'm dead I won't "be" anything. My life is finite and will end but I won't be there to know that it's over. It's just not really a factor.
I try to not die for as long as is feasible, but there's not a "reason" to besides that I'm an animal, and the animals who didn't mind dying all died out, so I'm left with instincts that tell me not to die.
I play along with the instincts because that's what I do. There's not really a reason besides that. One day I'll fail to not die and then the "none of this really mattered" bit becomes important, in retrospect.
Not that I'll be able to appreciate it, ofc.
