He contended that everything that exists in Nature (i.e., everything in the Universe) is one Reality (substance) and there is only one set of rules governing the whole of the reality which surrounds us and of which we are part. Spinoza viewed God and Nature as two names for the same reality

Spinoza was a thoroughgoing determinist who held that absolutely everything that happens occurs through the operation of necessity. For him, even human behaviour is fully determined, with freedom being our capacity to know we are determined and to understand why we act as we do. By forming more "adequate" ideas about what we do and our emotions or affections, we become the adequate cause of our effects (internal or external), which entails an increase in activity (versus passivity). This means that we become both more free and more like God, as Spinoza argues in the Scholium to Prop. 49, Part II. However, Spinoza also held that everything must necessarily happen the way that it does. Therefore, humans have no free will. They believe, however, that their will is free. This illusionary perception of freedom stems from our human consciousness, experience, and indifference to prior natural causes. Humans think they are free but they ″dream with their eyes open″. For Spinoza, our actions are guided entirely by natural impulses. In his letter to G. H. Schuller (Letter 58), he wrote: "men are conscious of their desire and unaware of the causes by which [their desires] are determined."

We fear death, but what if dying isn't as bad as we think? To live is joy to die is peace what is not to like?
https://www.theguardian....isnt-as-bad-as-we-think

It's the ultimate of all unknowns. That's why we fear it so much. On the same note, do you think animals fear death or pain when facing their predictors?

Anyway, it looks like the fear of death has gone down from the many suicides we're seeing especially from well to do individuals in the entertainment industry around the world. I think it's 2 days ago when a known radio personality committed suicide bearly 2 months since another known entertainment event organizer committed.

It's the ultimate of all unknowns. That's why we fear it so much. On the same note, do you think animals fear death or pain when facing their predictors?

Anyway, it looks like the fear of death has gone down from the many suicides we're seeing especially from well to do individuals in the entertainment industry around the world. I think it's 2 days ago when a known radio personality committed suicide bearly 2 months since another known entertainment event organizer committed.

I personally don't fear death but the effect it would have emotionally for my loved ones. Financially they will be OK