There are other various and sundry researchers kind of “on the fringe”, from astronomer types to various other researchers, who also give the year 2012 as a cataclysmic year of some sort. That year pops up a lot of places.
Personally, I will still pay my car insurance 6 months at a time and my home insurance one year at a time, as I expect to be around to see 2013. However, if I’m wrong, I don’t worry about that either, because if I’m not here on earth inhabiting a body, I’ll be somewhere else ...
You know, if it happens, it happens. I’m ready for it.