I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it that start being frightened.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
I have an internal protectiveness where it's like if it comes to just me as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like It could happen and I'm okay I'm prepared.
If you're extremely painfully frightened of age it shows.
So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop to die.