I've made my peace with death. I have some beliefs about the afterlife and the soul that help matters, and as for everything else...death is just inevitable. It is the final part of life. There's no sense freaking out about it.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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