During our exploration of one of the saddest texts from ancient Mesopotamia, the Assyrian Elegy, we noticed that people in Mesopotamia might have good reasons to fear death. Because their ideas about the Netherworld that awaited them were mostly bleak. In our current era we may encounter many religions that offer the possibility of a happier afterlife, and there are also a lot of persons who do not presume that there is an existence after death at all. Most of us, however, still do not look forward to dying, thank you very much.1 And the accompanying fear of death has created a lot of beautiful artworks as well as philosophical treatises. In this blog, I aim to share with you the insights from a few of the latter, which were written by Thomas Nagel and Martha Nussbaum.