Leaving aside the implication that I'm either in denial, or not a functioning member of society... And leaving aside that the link doesn't quite say either, fro

Leaving aside the implication that I'm either in denial, or not a functioning member of society... And leaving aside that the link doesn't quite say either, from what I can see... I agree that having no fear of oblivion is unusual. It's hard to distinguish fear of death from fear of dying. I fear the latter. It's hard to separate fear of death from cultural expectations of death. My reading is that most people fear oblivion partly because they haven't thought about it much, because they are focussed on worry about being wrong about their chosen afterlife scenario. More anecdotes, but I've noticed that small children, while being afraid of a lot of things, don't seem to suffer existential death anxiety. I believe, as was pointed out in your link, that such anxiety is largely (but maybe not entirely) socially constructed through language. And if something is socially constructed, it can be changed. With difficulty, but it is possible.