My entire career has been working in law enforcement in the military so I don’t have any irrational fear of dying because I’m in a position where danger is part of the job or can be and there is a potential, although small, that I could lose my life in the line of duty.
I’ve deployed to the Middle East 2 times since 9–11-2001 and serving in and around a combat zone significantly increases the chance of dying. I have to be mentally prepared for that very possibility (and I try to be as best as I can) when I am serving in a forward deployed location.
I don’t want to die and I don’t sit around dwelling on throughts of death itself or fearing it. When it is my time to go, I hope it is over quickly and that I’m on the express elevator to the Great Beyond going up and not down.