[ScottJMurray]

I believe that consciousness is an innate property of the universe, much like gravity. I believe that all things have some sort of "experience," with humans being at the top level of that ladder. If death just means losing our own sense of consciousness and rejoining the fundamental building blocks of the universe's consciousness, that means we don't ever die.

Also, if you're a Buddhist, and you acknowledge the fact that there is no self to die in the first place, only a long chain of different phenomena passing through the lens of consciousness itself, you probably feel a little better about the whole death thing.