[amichail]

No, I mean everybody who fears death regardless of whether they are ill.

[TechBro8615]

That sounds like a mental illness that should be treated with some sort of anti-anxiety medication.

I'm not sure that medicating the general population to numb their most basic survival instincts is such a great idea. Do you want a bunch of people driving around with no fear of death? I don't...

Another word for someone who doesn't fear death is "reckless."

[WhiteBlueSkies]

It's a mental illness not to fear death. Most don't fear it because they are ignorant about how close it is.

[082349872349872]

I wonder what makes people fearful of the time after their death but not the time before their birth?

[coldtea]

Since being alive is what most people cherish, time before birth is an unconscious countdown to this nice state. Whereas time before death is a conscious countdown to have it taken from you.

That both times are a "period where you're not alive" isn't enough to make people treat them equally. It's the difference in context that matters. Else one might ask "why people aren't afraid of kitchen knives when they're cooking, but are when a serial killer charges at them with one?"

People wouldn't give a fuck about the time after their death if it was in the past, like their time before birth always is while they are alive.

[tosc]

Because the time before their birth is not in the future?