> Kind of mindblowing perspective - you've already experienced the state of not existing, it's the same as before you were born.

Your consciousness might have existed before, in another body, and it might do so again after your death.

The fact is you don't know what happens after you die. Maybe you'll cease to exist and will never again come into existence, even over all the hundreds of trillions of years yet to come in this universe, and even in any of the who-knows-how-many other universes that will ever exist.

Or maybe the physical requirements to create your specific consciousness will reoccur again and again and again.

You just don't know. Nor does Neil deGrass Tyson. Nor does, for that matter, the pope or the Dalai Lama.

You may want certainty. You may crave it, even need it. But that's too bad, as you'll never have it.