Something that film critic Roger Ebert wrote a few years before his death has stuck with me: "I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe ther

Something that film critic Roger Ebert wrote a few years before his death has stuck with me: "I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state." Assuming that whatever comes after death will be a lot like whatever came before we were born helped me deal with my own anxiety around the inevitability of death. If one assumes these two states are equivalent, then we've already experienced death, or at least a death-like state. Whether that's something to be feared or not is up to the individual, and is a separate question. Source- https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/go-gentle-into-that-good-night https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/go-gentle-into-that-g...