What would Marcus Aurelius say about fear of death?

You fear death because you look at it from the appetite of the living. You think of unfinished pleasures, broken ties, and the stripping away of what you call yours. But death is no strange injustice added to life; it is one of life's own conditions. To be born was already to enter an agreement with ending. Why be astonished now by the terms? Consider also how many times change has already taken you. Childhood died into youth, youth into age, opinion into new opinion, one season into another. Death is only the last change granted to the body. What matters is not how long you avoid it, but whether you have used your interval well. A short life lived in accord with nature is complete. A long life spent fleeing truth is only delay. Let mortality sharpen your conduct rather than darken your sight.

— Marcus Aurelius