Seneca offers a rational approach to death anxiety by suggesting that death is simply the end of experience rather than a continued state of suffering or consciousness. If death is nothing - no sensation, no awareness, no pain - then there's nothing to fear about it. The fear of death often comes from imagining it as a terrible experience, but Seneca points out that there can be no experience without consciousness. This doesn't minimize the sadness of losing life or loved ones, but it removes the terror of death itself. We don't suffer before we're born, and we won't suffer after we die. Death is only frightening when we imagine it as something other than the simple end of sensation.