Great comments guys.
To add my two cents, here's the way I look at death:
Objective universe: Body stops working, game over. I don't really see what there's to be afraid of. Once your brain stops working, that's that. You won't really care about it anymore.
What's the fear about? The dying process itself? If you put it in the perspective of your entire life, it's going to be a mere blip. Is the fear about the actual non-existence part? Well, you didn't exist before you were conceived. Was
that state of non-existence a particularly distressing ordeal? I mean, how hard can it be to not exist?
I, for one have no recollection of it. When you don't exist, you don't exist, to state the obvious. Just make the most out of your time here, and worry about the future when you get there (which is to say never).
Subjective universe: Body stops working, and your soul/spirit detaches from the body and heads on to the "afterlife" (which I suspect we may also call the "beforelife" and "betweenlife").
Monsignor Benson channeled a beautiful view of the afterlife through Anthony Borgia, in his book Life in the World Unseen. Not sure I choose to believe it just yet, but it seems to be a rather plausible description of existence in one of the middle realms.