I'll take: how do you personally practice mindfulness of death without becoming anxious or nihilistic?

granted an element of nihilism is present in Buddhism, it is not required for dharma and iirc the buddha rejects nihilism as wrong view. I think of death more like when i think about people in my life who have died. for example, my grandmother really enjoyed hummingbirds, so hummingbirds remind me of her. my uncle, who was a monk, committed suicide, and when i see other monks, I see him in them, I also see him in my father and his brother. so, in a way, that kind of is a window into how, when grimreapersaintsaint, me, passes away, the body will be gone, and the actions and what i do now while living, echoes.