miment 12

Is death intrinsically bad? Is its very nature bad?

It's bad because of its opportunity cost?

Not existing is bad comparatively to existing. There is no intrinsic badness about death.

What's bad about death is you don't experience and enjoy life.

If I can cope with death without any reference to belief in the afterlife, do I still need the literature built around it?

The badness of death is in its prospect in this life. When you don't exist anymore you probably don't feel anything about not existing. When you don't exist, you cannot miss being, there is no fear of missing out. These are all emotions related to being and living. The fear dies when you die.

The knowledge that you're going to die makes this life a suffering. The suffering is from the knowledge, not from the death.