I'm afraid death might not be the end of consciousness. Nonexistence only scares the animal inside of me, not my analytical mind that understands that lack of sensation can't possibly be a bad thing, it's neutral, not that I wouldn't prefer a neverending existence full of positive sensations in its place, but who's gonna give me that? There's no universal law that states you must be happy, in your life or in a possible afterlife, if death is not the end.
The universe is ruled by crude natural forces which are indifferent to the well being of the minds they create,
in other words the cosmos isn't ruled by a benevolent god that cares about your future or the future of any living being, evidence of that is that human beings have been torturing and enslaving animals for centuries just because of their intellectual superiority. And even before humans life wasn't that great, dozens or more of millions of years of animals being eaten alive, dying of cold, disease, or and being tortured in countless ways by predators and or the environment. A benevolent intelligent force should've intervened at the very beginning of this game called life if they existed and cared.
If a god or intelligent force at the top of the food chain (aliens, spirits etc.) exists he is by definition malevolent,
since he doesn't intervene, and if he wants to intervene, but he can't, then he is of no use to our future here or in the next life anyway
your life can be good (rich man)
or bad (burned alive guy on bestgore .com)
and that's all due to luck.
If you think you deserve what you have because of your hard work, think about all the beings that also worked hard but got a different result.
Think about the beings that wanted work hard, but didn't have the opportunity due to a circumstantial limitation in their life, such as being physically disabled.
Nobody deserves anything, good or bad.
If you work hard and you pass your math exam,
it's only because you don't have the brain of someone that's mentally retarded. Everything of value that you have can be traced down to luck. Luck that gave rise to the set of causes that conduced to the existence of your comfort.
If the set of causes that created my personal theater of mind happen again, they might recreate my consciousness in a deplorable state. A nightmare that would last forever.
I don't want to be eaten by lions.
But neither this malevolent god nor nature cares
Nonexistence sounds too good to be true in a universe - reality that could be infinite.
Infinite in everything
The only things that reality might not have
are things that violate the laws of logic
My consciousness clearly is possible and logical since it happened and I'm talking to you,
so why can't it happen a second time?
Because that possibility scares you?
You think nature gives a sjhit?