I meant meditating not in the "sitting on the floor, breathing" sense but in the sense of ruminating and thinking. I'm not an expert on death anxiety. There is

I meant meditating not in the "sitting on the floor, breathing" sense but in the sense of ruminating and thinking. I'm not an expert on death anxiety. There is the "normal" kind, and then there are conditions that probably require a therapist. I am not suggesting life should not be cherished, nor that one should not consider each death a loss. Lots of people have written about getting rid of it. You just probably need to skim through self-helpy books until you find some rationale to appease you. Three points that helped me: It is a huge privilege to be born in the first place. The number of living people is infinitesimally smaller than the number of people who will ever exist (I'm referring to the fact that there is about 70B ways fathers and mothers genome can combine and you are only one of those options - as is any human of their parents genomes who has lived). Being dead is just like being before you were born. Renaissance doesn't cause anxiety in me so I don't know why a future centuries from now on without me would frighten me. There is the "imagine you are dead" visualization. Imagine you are dead, buried to the ground and worms are eating your corpse. Really vividly, focus for a few minutes. Then stop and continue your day. Notice the thought of being dead does not seem so frightening now you've imagined it. Some mythologies purport an afterlife, if you prefer in believing the continuity of consciousness go ahead and do that - I have nothing against it. I think everybody agrees patterns that are related to of us will remain in the world like ripples in the pond after we are gone. But beyond that I have no reason to believe in any sort of continuity.