How do you cope with knowing you will die?

[SvennoJ]

The older I get the less I mind it ending at some point. No more pain, no more bullshit, no more having to get up every morning. I don't believe in god or any afterlife. I'll simply cease to exist for all I know, which doesn't seem any different from dreamless sleep that never ends.

It's the how that is scary. DNR please and no extraordinary measures keeping me alive on a machine, no thanks. For now I enjoy life every moment I can for as long as my body and mind will allow it, which should still be a long time.