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But isn't there a fear anyway? Because its forever. Also not seeing loved ones ever again. Not enjoying the nice things ever again.
Add constant pain, and that's what I call life.
It's not rational. Evolution has hardwired us and every other organism that has the necessary neural architecture to fear death and seek to avoid it. A species that didn't have an instinctive and heritable aversion to death would not last very long.
Describe your "aversion" to death any way you want to, if in the end it results in something that very much looks like fear, I think you're making a distinction without a difference.
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