To pitch it another way Terethian: it's easier to wear sandals than it is to cover the whole world in shoe leather. (old saying)
Applied to the topic of death and what we're trying in our various ways to say here: what needs to change is not the nature of life, or of the external world/existence - the way to transcending the these fears is to change our view.
'View' in this case being the way we perceive the nature of existence, and life - and this is a matter of going inward and working with our mind. Our untrained perceptions generally don't stand up very well when we examine them.
Vee's point about life for example - just to get to the point of knowing that this is likely the case in a very 'felt' sense from experience backed up by teaching can only be a hugely liberating shift.
Likewise Rondele's point about self absorbtion. That's not a criticism, rather the suggestion that while we're like almost everybody else stuck with the feeling that 'I' can only survive if I live physically death can only be a horrendous prospect.
Yet the experience of being an individual physical me is only the result of a particular way of looking at things. The development of an alternative view can again only be very liberating - for example that the real me behind this is a non physical entity that cannot die - even if it can't ultimately deliver total certainty in the terms of what the scared physical me right now would claim to want. (but bear in mind that no matter what you give it it will find ways to second guess the evidence)
The problem in the end is that it's the previous catch 22 problem. While we're in 'me' mode we can perceive only a certain threatening sort of reality. Yet as if by magic if we work our way past these beliefs through the calming effects of meditation, teaching and higher knowing then 'hey presto' - new and more benign takes on reality slowly open up before us.
But as above - the fear based 'me' reality or set of beliefs excludes us from perceiving them before start. Basically because mind is wired so that we perceive what we believe. 'Opening' means shedding layers of belief, passing through successive 'veils' that prevent our seeing.
We literally move into new worlds and new realities with new knowings...