I am still phobic of death and while this like any phobia is never anything other than irrational it is unique in as far as that even the most fearless cannot defeat or get over it.
I have made infinite progress since first loosing sleep as a child pondering the concept and my comfort now has only become born due to acceptance - like many I spent the early part of my life in total denial of the fact I would die, but while I honestly believe I have made progress in so far as I am now largely accepting of my mortality I still experience baseless fear, most likely due to my formative brain washing as a Roman Catholic which, despite my knowing better through my understanding of post - enlightenment natural philosophy, cosmology, astro and general meta - physics, has still left me with a belief in God. Yes, its a backwards notion specifically designed to help cretins like me cope with mortality but with only 7% of the world having so far identified as atheist, I am not alone in my moronic hold onto fairytales. I have required revival from an OD, coming too after an IV naloxone dose was delivered via a cannula sited in my hand by a paramedic after over 20 mins of unconsciousness. While I have probably been closer to death on more occasions I wish to acknowledge, this was the one occasion where my life was saved by 3rd party interventions and as disorientating as the experience was I remember the final moments prior to my losing consciousness and the haze of coming to, as because the incident happened after I 'cleaned' up while stealing a chip (the reduced tolerance being a possible contributing factor) I had the good luck of simply waking up and not going into WD's as a result of the naloxone. Remembering the finest of details here means I also remember what the 20mins were like while under - I just did not exist. No light at the end of the tunnel, no life flashing before my eyes, no dreams or even lucid regard to the fact I was 'sleeping' - just a big void that I assume relates to what one experiences after death. I mean, it must be the same sensation as the one I felt on D-Day in 1944, exactly 35 years to the day before I was born - just an overwhelming blast of not being there.