I was dead before I was born and that wasn't a big deal.

I don't have an issue with it-I'm more concerned with not having completed my work during my life (I have young adult kids with disabilities who need me till they die, and I'm not likely to outlive them...)

I just had a health issue where I thought I was on my way out at any minute for weeks. Though I of course don't want to die, as an Atheist I have no real fear about what will happen to me if I did die. I was much more concerned about the actual process. Fortunately, they hacked out my gallbladder and I am fine now.

It will make everything that’s happened in my life that much more special, as there will be no more ~

I always think this when I see people running.

Cope with knowing when you die it’s over. This is an Agnostic site. Agnostic = I don’t know. So to me, I’m clueless as to what may or may not happen. I feel I have the same chance to go to heaven as anyone, and I also have the same chance as anyone to just be dead. Every time someone asks me the unknowable, I just answer, “I don’t know “. Most days I’m fine giving that answer.

I just try to leave as music, art, and writing in my wake. Will anyone remember my work 20 years after i'm gone? Eh, probably not. But i feel better writing a song than i do worrying about death.

I don't cope. I just live and reflect and always have a calling card to remind me when my ego gets ahead of it's self. "Memento Mori" yes originally a catholic Idea but I don't reflect on the afterlife or soul portion just the remember you're not Immortal and death comes for us all don't fear it and live.

I have important things to think about, and thinking about the end interferes. I just don’t.

I'm totally fine with it. There's absolutely no point in me being any other way about it. It's inevitable and fretting over it is a waste of time.
You do that Carpe Diem. Today is all we really have. Everything else is unknown.

I don't think about it all too much. I do things I enjoy, and try to do those i don't thatll get me further in life to be able to do even more things i enjoy. Maybe ill even be able to make some sort of impression on the world, for however short of a period that may be (whether its 1 or 1000 years makes no difference really)...nice to think i might go on living after i die through something i love and worked hard on, or just did something good in the world even if it doesnt last until after my death (rescue an animal/s, write 1 or more books, change peoples lives for the better throuh whatever relationship we have/had, maybe even invent or discover somethig that has an impact on society in some way, etc). Nothin matters really, but we have to find meaning in our lives if we don't want to live an unthinking, survival and reproductuion-oriented life, or kill ourselves.

What is there to cope with? Your just accept reality and go n today. As far is death itself. there is nothing to cope with.. You simply cease to exist.

I don't concern myself with it much at all. Dying is part of the program. Obviously, I would rather it take its time getting here. At my age, I'm at that 'waiting for the two minute warning' stage, so it sure as hell wouldn't make much sense to worry over it now. Sure, I'd like it to be quick and painless, too, but since I'm not planning ahead in that manner either, I've no control over that aspect.

Live your life. When your time comes it will just happen. Do not waste whatever time you have left worrying about when am I going to die. Everybody dies. Do fun things and enjoy.

How do I cope?

Well ... easily. Without effort.

I just know it to be true and accept it. It's simply not an 'issue'.

In truth it's something I barely think about - and certainly something I don't worry about.

When I hear of a celebrity keel over...
I'm like... whelp... made it past that one!
/shrug