This does not affect younger people as much as people who are actually past some stage in their life (youth in particular)

I really did not know that it troubled people on a regular basis until I heard it come up a couple times. Normally (slap me please) I feel that the rest of the world just kind of floats by, and I am the only one that does not live on a day by day by promotion by marriage by kids basis, all these milestones that people expect to have, and they do, until the last one they have is death.

You could look at it as I sometimes do: Time is immaterial. You cannot compare the temporary with the infinite. Infinity will always blot out the temporary, so the ratio of life to death is effectively 0:infinity which means that life does not exist. No matter how long our lives are, or how short, they will still amount to nothing, mathematically. If you drop a pebble in a swimming pool, and then continuously increase the size of the pool, naturally the ratio of pebble to water gets smaller. What if you took an alien concept to us mortals; infinity, and applied it to the ratio, there would be no pebble.

You, tomorrow, will be on your deathbed. I am not joking in the least. Maybe you'll even remember this post all those years ago. Really, time is not experienced. Your world is experienced, and you can see the effect of time on it, but sooner rather than later, it will all be gone, and nothing can prepare you for that. Not that you need to. You really don't have to cross a bridge at gunpoint, because you always have another option. But even if death was the most horrible, infinitely painful experience that ripped the soul from your body and left you in the coldest void imaginable to infinitely painful eternal torment and despair, it would still happen, and there would be nothing you could do about it. Even going utterly insane, or living life to the absolute fullest and having the most fulfilling life possible by mortal standards, or by being an average person, or ending your life early, or putting yourself in a coma for the rest of your years could not stop it.


On a final and more optimistic note, if it has only lived for the tiniest fraction of a unit of time, it still has lived, and the universe can harbor it, so our universe is not a void. Compare dime to a void: The void is infinitely simple: Nothing exists in it. Perfectly circular and unchanging. But life would break those boundaries, even for the tiniest time, so the universe would cease to be a void and become victim to anomaly.

After that warm-up, how do you deal with your own mortality?

PS: The warm up was not comprehensive and obviously takes liberties, but it was meant as more of a brainstormer.