| | The fact is that your life will end someday anyway. Even if you somehow manage to make it thru the "Singularity" and emerge as a meta-human entity unfettered by biological limits and able to live in virtually any environment with an intelligence comparable to homo sapien sapiens as we compare to ants, there will still someday very likely be something that will take you by surprise, such as a wave front from the collision of two black holes, travelling at light speed and undetectable until it arrives.
It's likely that many planets with life that could have evolved to conceptual intelligence have been sterilized repeatedly by local supernovas, just because they happen to lie too close to the galactic core. And of course we had our dynosaur-killer asteroid, one of several, it's thought.
So, the point is how to live successfully, not indefinitely. You are only aware of your death in the way that you are aware of any future event, through experience and expectation. You are only directly aware of the present, so the trick is to maximize that awareness.
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