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Having just come back from the local Palliative Care unit to see my mom, I can honestly tell you that I have no fear of death - whatsoever. In my current situation with a terminal family member it is harder dealing with other people's odd ideas about death and dying that is tricky at times. But, that's not what you are asking. You want to know how to get to where I have been for literally decades. The easy answer is to learn to have out-of-body adventures. When you manage to do this consciously, as in you are aware of what is happening AS it is happening, you will likely leave your fear of death behind with your body. In many ways, it is a quite liberating thing in that you no longer are very concerned about death. This does not mean that one looks forward to death, as the experience also give you a profound appreciation for the world your body inhabits.
There is a natural mechanism in the body to stay alive, but that survival instinct is there for a good reason, so we just don't fall over and die when we stub a toe.
I tend to agree. I certainly never set out to accomplish this, it was just a fringe benefit and quite unexpected.
Remember, fear of death and fear of pain are not the same. While I might barely fear death, I fear pain (the axe, sword, bullets, and bombs you mentioned) very very much. I don't know if there's a way to overcome this fear of pain, but I know that fear of death can be relieved (at least partly) in a few ways. Having strong faith in an afterlife is the most common way to alleviate fear of death. Similarly, communing with the dead of death itself can make people more comfortable with it and make them not fear it. Escaping the fear of death is the first, and probably most important, step when beginning in necromancy. Now I'm not saying you should go practice necromancy, fear of death is completely natural and okay, but if you're really determined to overcome it, that's the best suggestion I can give.
I don't think it's impossible but the instinct for self preservation is very strong. My goal is a fearless death by which in looking at and examining our atomic make up, tells me the universe already "knows" what it's doing. After all, it "assembled" you well enough from an assortment of atoms, there's no real reason to say things can't happen ever again in the context of emerging life.
I suspect the fear of death is only a reflex
For me, it is not death I fear, but the pain before it. I think I can speak for most when I say I do not want to be cut into pieces or shot, or bombed, etc. I do not think most people actually fear dying itself. At least I do not. I have taken comfort in the belief of the soul, and that when I die I will most likely come back. That's just me though.
