Projection! YOU find your own mortality excruciating. Read the article, it talks about you. I would guess then that you believe in an infinite afterlife so what's the problem? I myself am not afraid to die, look at it as my first day of peace and rest. I've never understood that hyper sense of survival. To me, dying in a car wreck unexpectedly is preferable to a long ugly battle with the Grim Reaper.