> The Ancients are no good; to think about death is not to experience it – to believe one is not afraid of it only shows one has not yet met it: What about peo

> The Ancients are no good; to think about death is not to experience it – to believe one is not afraid of it only shows one has not yet met it: What about people who thought they will die and were ok with it? Or those that did indeed die and were, at least apparently, ok with it? Those cases are not so rare. It seems to me that, all philosophical attitudes apart, fear of death is a matter of character. Fear, after all, is an emotion and as such it is difficult, though probably not impossible to control consciously.