I like to think of death as being equality in its purest form. But yes I can pretend all I want that I got over it, yet it still terrifies me at times. When that happens, I tell myself the same thing Hitchens said before passing away, life is just a party, no one wants to stay at a party forever.
"organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority" -- Richard Dawkins