Problem dealing with death as an atheist

[Cinjin]

Specifically, I am convinced, beyond a doubt, that there is no existence after death. I am 100% convinced that when I die, there will be nothingness... no afterlife, no me, no thoughts, no blackness, no sleep, nor any ability to think. I won't even know I died, and I won't even be able to acknowledge that I don't know I died. At this moment, I feel like I really understand what that means, and I am deeply deeply disturbed by it. I'm not sure how to cope with it. I can keep it out of my mind for short periods of time, but ultimately I'll read an article about someone dying, see a news report, and so on and start thinking about it again.

If anyone has any advice or thoughts or hopefully some sort of solution to my problem, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

I just don't think ANYBODY should say they're 100% anything when you're talking about the possiblity of an afterlife. Atheists or religious -- you CANNOT know. No one can be truly 100% on the subject of life after death. Usually its a christian who says something stupid like that, but once in awhile we do get the occassional atheists using absolutisms like that. Sad. Very Sad. I've come to expect better from the enlightened.

More to your topic. Death is nothing to fear. Stop fretting over something you will NEVER have the power to control. Cowboy up!