I disagree, why will he eventually grow out of his fear of death? I think if the majority of the worlds population didn't believe in a god, afterlife, mother nature or something like the spirit world then we would have millions of people with a active fear of death.

The only people that truly don't fear real death are atheists that have made peace with that fact.

I am a atheist that has not out grown a fear of death, but I can't relate to anyone I know because they all say the same as you, "you will eventually out grow that fear", then I ask what if I am right and when we die we are forever gone and there is no afterlife? They say "Well that is unlikely, there is something else out there" So everyone I know doesn't fear death, because they think they will never truly die anyway.

Like I said, the only people on earth that really do not fear death are a small amount of the atheist population that have come to accept death as inevitable. But what I think is that if all of humanity was atheist, we would be pouring billions in immortality research.

I'd posit that the fear of death is really the fear of change.

You don't truly want to live forever, and lose everyone you know and will ever know. If everyone lives forever, then children will never grow.

Once you truly accept that change in not only inevitable, but extremely desirable, the fear of death is greatly diminished.

Death is completely painless non-existence. Absolutely nothing to fear about it.

I guess its the fear of non-existence. Of course once we are dead its not a issue, but whilst we are alive its something on some of our minds. (not wanting the party to end)

Yeah, fair enough, I've struggled with the same fear. I want to stay alive as long as possible too.

There's no way you could know that for sure.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov

The page he points to heralds it as a form of non-invasive surgery (from what I skimmed). Based on your comment I was expecting some sort of immortality solution. Are you saying that investing in medical technology is a bad investment because we should just 'accept death?'

No, I'm all for the technology. It's just that the particular poster has a habit of banging on about how we need immortality research right now. Curing/alleviating illness and promoting immortality and two different things.