Why do people FEAR Death? Death should not be feared.

Pro is only interpreting inevitability of death in one way without observing the inevitability of life in another. If that guy holding that gun to your head sees you laughing rather than showing fear or respect, you made your inevitable survival disappear by pissing him off, similarly if you choose not to even try to dodge the car you make your survival a far less inevitable outcome and death a far more immediately inevitable one. What you are basically saying is that since a song will end, we should not fear anything that could stop it ending sooner than the intended or more pleasurable end. If we were running a concert or any festival ending it too soon would be a disaster not just of yours but those intending to visit. Fear of death is more often than not a selfless matter as opposed to the selfish one that Pro is portraying it as. Most people who are suicidal are in a very self-absorbed state of mind thinking no-one relies on them, wants them or cares about them. Non-suicidal people and people who cannot even understand how one could ever want to commit suicide are often very empathetic individuals who see the pleasure they are able to give others on a daily basis and learn to take pride and gain selfish pleasure from the selfless giving of it. They may need to avoid death so they can raise their kids or attend to their sick grandfather, they may need to avoid death because of things in the future they don't even know about yet that would go differently and better for their friends and/or family if they were alive to assist. To say that death is inevitable and that therefore we should ignore any and all reasons both selfish and selfless to remain alive is irrational and a huge leap of logic. There are countless events that you will come across in life where you being there at that moment made a huge, or at least a little, difference and the difference snowballed via butterfly effect and made many things happen that otherwise would not. Death is not something to be embraced unless we are at such a stage in health or aging where we have truly become useless to all, even ourselves (which is a fundamental argument in support of legalized euthanasia in such situations). Until we are that useless, we have reason to live and it is up to us to appreciate it. Sure, you are entitled to not fear death and think as you do but to suggest that the mentality you hold is somehow superior logically because death is inescapable is ridiculous. Many things are escapable, including gravity, but in situations where gravity is suddenly an immediate threat, you sure as hell should be fearing it in order to mitigate its effects and/or immediateness. Death is something that will come to you but something that you can consciously put a lot of effort into making come later and appreciating that it hasn't come to you or those you care about yet. Fear is an emotion just as irrational as the need to live or urge to commit suicide. Rationality isn't the problem, but supposing that one emotion or outlook is superior to another is indeed irrational and to deny that fearing death could indeed be extremely justifiable and worthy respect is also without any rational basis. You can always make yourself more useful to others and then you will see others respond far more positively to you over time. Some people appreciate you less than others for the same amount of effort and that’s why less positive people tend to themselves feel like others are less positive in return. Negative outlooks lead to negative thought patterns such as the one Pro has. It’s all psychological and all very justifiable to say that a person who is capable of being useful to others regularly and seeing ways to make others appreciate them should indeed fear death as they enjoy their life and death would remove that enjoyment. People who don’t fear death see life as something so negative that death (being neutral) would somehow be ‘more positive’ than the negative state they are in. Find me a happy suicidal person and I’ll give you my soul.