Death Cannot Be Inhabited

Death is a non-experience. There is fear of the unknown – but the unknown presupposes habitation. From an absolute standpoint, free of mysticism or religiosity, if there is no consciousness to inhabit death, then there is no unknown to be inhabited. Thus, the fear of death as fear of the unknown becomes unsustainable.
What truly persists is the implicit belief in permanence – and the fear that such permanence may not hold. We do not fear death as absence, but the collapse of the fiction of continuity that sustains the self.