Dealing with Mortality Anxiety

I think what helped me was nature. I liked watching the cycles of nature, and connecting to it. Especially photography and nature. It helped calm me to find and appreciate the small details life has to offer.

I was struggling with the concept a while ago and for me learning about death and dying actually really helped me. I searched all over the internet for information. what it was like to die, what happens to your body when you die, what people who died and came back have to say about their experience, what the options for my body are after death. I thought about what I wanted for my own death and told loved ones. It was important to me for it to be as painless as it could be so I told people to focus on pain management if I was ever really sick or dying. I told people I wanted to be cremated when I die because I hate the idea of being buried. I wanted to donate my organs so I could make an impact after my death. I essentially took agency over it and decided to learn all I could about it and do the best I could to come to terms with it. For me the whole unknown of it all made me terrified. I don’t know if you believe in god but I personally do and maybe that’s why my focus was more on the process of dying rather than what comes after but it can be really helpful to believe in something whatever that thing is. I even considered the possibility that there is nothing after death but when I thought about it for a while I came to the conclusion that even if there is truely nothing, then I won’t be bothered by it because I wasn’t bothered by all of the time before I was born that I wasn’t here. I hope this helps!