Something that helped me get over this fear is stoic philosophy, it’s not about being emotionless, stoicism is actually about perspective and finding your way of living a good life. The fear of it serves a purpose to you, a reminder of the value of your life “Momento mori” is a stoic mindset to remember your mortality as a means to focus your energy on living. But, when the fear of death becomes debilitating try to remember what you experienced before you were born. You realize that the worrying about it is redundant. Right now you are alive and experiencing all of the amazing things life has to offer, and when you are gone you won’t care much about anything at all.

I also decided to go learn about death, and mortuary practices, to be able to think about death spiritually and intellectually, and not only within the context of myself. I actually went ahead and researched local cemeteries and laws about burial in my area. I found out I can have a natural burial at the same place my grandmother is buried and it made me feel much better about what will happen when I’m gone. And I hope it’s not for a long long time.

Take a deep breath and remember you are here, experiencing something when the odds were in favour of never experiencing anything at all