Death Corps membership

Maybe as a person gets older, it is beneficial to join what I could call the "Death Corps".  I am using that term to refer to older people who school themselves in acceptance of death.  It may be impossible for a living human to fully accept death but it seems to me that the more one can accept the possibility of death, the less the event of one's death holds one hostage.  When I suddenly experience a heart attack, fear may storm through my being but working on acceptance may lessen the paralysis of mind and emotion that dying smacks me with.  I like to point out that I have not actually died.  We understand that full death is final and that it may not be possible to sample death.  It seems to be a condition that is all or nothing but it seems to be that books and opinions and medical exams can give me the idea that I am approaching the state of being dead.  Working on accepting that fact, on the realization that many people before me have died and that it seems inevitable that I will too.

As I age and friends about my age die, become limited in their body's abilities, I may become convinced that being dead would be preferable to being in pain or being very limited in my abilities.