Why am I me?

[Ace Otana]

Being conscious individually, as I assume everyone else is, the question comes to mind; why do I exist from a 1st person point of view? Obviously I couldn't exist from a 3rd person POV, but when I die it'll seem to me as if the world ends; MY world will end. How can I explain this... When you sleep without dreaming everything is nonremembered, and seems 'black'. If death is the same, then it'll be lights out for eternity, and therefore I'm wondering why I'm conscious to begin with. Why me? Why here? Why now? Why at all? etc.

Any answers or ideas? I've asked my friends and family, but they don't really grasp the concept of the question.

A very complex question. One that isn't so easily answered.

I can speak of death and help give an idea of what being dead is like but on the how and why we are here and in this unique body and mind is beyond me.

We have all been dead. We each have been dead for billions of years. When dead, not only will vision and sound be gone but everything we once could perceive. Our very consciousness will be gone.
Time and space will no longer have any meaning to you. Billions of years would pass and you'll never be aware of it. Fear, hate, lust and love will no longer have any meaning to you. The world from it's point of view is rid of you, but from your POV, you are rid of the world.
I see our existence as nothing more than a taster, a taste of what it is to exist, to look around and wonder. We will have to give it up whether we like it or not. I find the idea interesting that everything we see and understand will one day have no meaning to us. Whether we do good or bad, death is equal to all.