I forgot where I heard this line:
“Worrying is like a rocking chair. It’ll give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.”

Another way to look at things is asking:
Can I do something about it?

If the answer is No, then there’s no reason to worry. You can’t do anything about it anyway.

If the answer is Yes, then stop worrying and go do something about it.

Worrying about it won’t prevent it from happening, it’s just going to make you feel bummed out about something you can’t change.

Focus on enjoying your life, so that in your final moments your last thoughts are “Bummer, ah well, I had a good run”.

If it helps most of the time fear of death comes from being anxious about not being in control.

It will make you worse at living.

Fear is an evolved response to keep you safe so you can do fun things like have sex and eat bread and play with your children. If it’s not keeping you safe, then it’s being useless and you shouldn’t feel it.

I am worried about it. But there’s nothing I can do, really. It’s scary. That’s ok. People telling you to not be concerned with death or that they are glad they will return to the earth or some bullshit can continue to eat their false hope. I’m not interested.

It’s a valid fear and worry.

Everyone should fear death. It’s what keeps us doing smart things like looking both ways before crossing the street or not drinking random containers of suspicious liquid. It’s healthy to fear death to a degree.

The question is that is this impacting your life in a significantly negative way? Is it causing daily intense distress? Is it causing you to become a shut in and not leave your home? Then it’s worth addressing.

If it’s not significantly negatively impacting your quality of life, then there’s nothing that needs to be changed about your viewpoint.

I started fearing death more than ever a few months ago. I chose to do maybe what the opposite of what my fear told me and I learned to ride a motorcycle. So I’m still out here living life.

People have a lot of good points here, but I want to add that it’s ok and normal to be afraid of death, even if it isn’t rational. We’re animals, that’s just how we are built to feel about it. You can come to terms with it and obsess less, but it’s likely going to be there anyway, which isn’t always a bad thing.

Most things I worry about never happen. Worrying works.

Because it’s going to happen no matter what. Save your energy for somehing else.

death is not being alive. that was your state before your birth. you experienced it already for a timespan far larger than your life.

It’s literally the last thing you should be worried about.

You can’t control it. That’s the answer.

You should worry about the decisions you make every day that might hasten your death (or make it really horrible), but that’s where your influence ends.

I have a rather intimate relationship with death. I did a lot of end of life care, so facing mortality happened early in my life, before I was even old enough to vote.

I don’t fear death because it isn’t scary. Dying can be scary, as in all the bullshit that takes you from healthy and alive to not. If it’s sudden and fast, you won’t know it’s there. If it’s slow, well, death becomes a visitor you long to see.

No matter what you do, you will die. That can bring peace. Accept the fact of it. Know that, some day, everything comes to its natural end. It’s certain, reliable, the one true constant we can count on. No matter what else the universe throws at our tailless monkey asses, death awaits with its open arms to embrace us all. I call that comfort.

Because once it happens, that’s it. You won’t care anymore because you won’t be anymore.

Reasons to not worry about death specifically because you worry about death:

1. Every moment you spend worrying about death is a moment you aren’t spending truly alive. If you’re worried about running out of time, then why would you want to keep wasting time worrying?
2. Stress—like that from constant worry—quite literally kills you both physically and psychologically. The more stressed you are the more wear and tear both your body and brain experience. So not only is worry wasting your life, it is also shortening it; in other words, worrying about death is actually bringing you closer to it.

What’s to worry about though? Remember before you were born? It’s going to be exactly like that.

I mean, I don’t want to die, but I also don’t understand what there is to be anxious about.