Life and our eventual death is f-ing scary. Anything anyone wants to do to help cope with that, no matter how batshit crazy it is to other people, is fine by me (as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else).
Death isn't scary, but our view of it is. We were already dead for 14 billion years and that doesnt seem to bother anyone. The next 14 billion will be much the same.
If anything, a bunch of inanimate matter suddenly springing up and wreaking havoc is the scary reality. If a bunch of sand on the beach suddenly became conscious and started talking to me, and swallowing people up, that would be far freakier than death itself.
death is scary because we decided to protray it in that way. What's scary in an endless sleep? From a sleep deprived person pov, it seems like a pretty good ending.
