Shit happens, so LIVE till you die.

I guess I just not a deep thinker. There's nothing to cope with, why worry about something that I have no power over?

Since there is nothing you can do about it, why worry? Just enjoy the time you have, instead of thinking about the time you don't

How do you cope with fact that the sun rotates around the earth? It just "is"....no coping necessary!

I'm looking forward to it. No more suffering.

Yes I believe my consciousness will fade. Such as if you sit in a sealed dark room and turned on a high voltage light, the heat would increase in the room. After the light is turned off, it takes time for the heat to fade and become part of the rooms temperature. Death is only an event to the one living, after that no one knows, but the odds are it is much more than this, OH I believe this. I will not be there to witness it, somehow I am involved with being.

Sitting in a teary puddle of quaking fear, obviously, paralyzed by the utter horror of it all.
Wait! I am not sure I understand the question.........

It just is what it is. I don't really think about death beyond the hope that I simply die with as little suffering as possible. If all goes well, I won't even notice.

I think everyone deep down will still have that primal fear, just a natural part of our own existence and psyche. But you can't let that one point spoil what you have now.

Serendipity VictoriaNotes
Just by 'happenstance' (it is one of 2 that I came across) this came up again the same night I replied to this question. I like to read before going to bed and opened The Atlantic Monthly to this article. It is very interesting and definitely needs to be shared. It augments the link VictoriaNotes provided. It is called the WeCroak app and is billed as the anti-app, app.

[theatlantic.com]

I choose not to worry about it. I'm alive today. I have a roof over my head. Food to eat. A cat to cuddle. And a studio to make art. Oh, and eagles flying overhead. Why worry about death? It will happen when it happens.

It becomes easier to cope I you ask yourself, "Was I afraid or in pain before I was born?". Of course the answer is no. It becomes even more interesting when you think that the billions of years since The Big Bang was no time at all before you were born. After you die an eternity passes just as fast.

Thank you Victoria for the great video. This subject keeps coming up and always gets a lot of attention.

People often say it is not so much death but the process of dying that is so worrisome (pain, being alone, loose strings). When my partner was dying we got involved with the endoflifewa program and she enrolled in the states Death With Dignity program. I occasionally receive e-mails from them and I will share the latest. Scroll down to state by state to see what is going on in the individual states.

[deathwithdignity.org]

Im more worried that I will live forever

Thanks for keeping the discussion flowing! Loving your answers!

I live today

The key for me is spiritualism, I have a mind that transcends our humanism, We think therefore we are however , we must think of what we truly are and that is a episode in time
There is no such thing as death, Death does not occur and never has, Transitions happens continually,
The entire existence is one of energy. Nothing else, just energy and we are at a moment in that energy, Upon the demise of our chemical unit and reactions within our self, we still hold only 14 billion year old atoms which have already been within many types of space.time positions.

"Cope"? How do you cope with the fact that he sky is blue today? I do not understand this question, sorry.

Death is an inescapable consequence of living, you are doomed to die from the moment you are conceived. That never changes, just how we look at it. So I just accept it.

Nothing to cope... had faced death face to face and is what it is. Live your life to the fullest. Brother in law just got sick and 3 weeks later was gone, very inopportune and unexpected at 7 years my junior but we can not give much thought about our possibility to check out at any moment... sickness or accident. Enjoy life because it may be the only shot we got.

Why worry about something that is inevitable? I hope it just happens though. My partner was diagnosed with cancer 2 years ago November an told it would be his last Christmas. It was. That sucked. He wasn't ready to go. I don't know how I will react if given a death sentence

My opinion is that nostalgic people (like me) want to hang on longer... to see a Mars colony; to see medical advances that would blow my mind, and other things. Letting go of my existence scares me. How do I cope? It's a work in progress.

Having spent a big portion of my life in depression and constantly feeling as if I was dying and now...somehow being mostly free of depression...death seems like a natural outcome of having lived! I have no fear of death, nor am I worried that it will come to soon. And, I harbor no desire to live forever. Yet, I am not finished with life...

As much as it's possible I try to live 'in the moment' because when I eventually die I won't even know I'm dead because there will be no one there anymore to know anything. Kinda puts real 'zest' into life/existence.

I think of this from Neil deGrasse Tyson: "I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime"

I have thought about it as we all must have. whats the point?