Are you afraid of dying/death?

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Here is an experiment:

Picture nothing...
Once you have that image in your head, you will notice that what you are seeing is a colour (usually black or white). Try to picture nothing again, remembering that a colour is something.
It would be like something completely transparent (e.g. air) without anything in it, behind it, around it, etc. No colours, no objects...
Keep trying to picture it...

When I try to do this, I get a horrible chill down my spine as my brain reaches a dead end and I realise that it is impossible.

If death means that you stop existing, then it is not like your life came to an end. It is like your life was erased, because you lose your consciousness and your memories. You can no longer see, hear, smell, taste, feel, or "be". In fact, there is no such thing as "you", because you don't exist. Living people may know you had a life, but as far as you're concerned...oh wait! You don't exist!

Why be afraid of something unavoidable? Like being afraid of sleeping or waking up... Concerned about dying young, distressing family and friends, but not afraid of the experience. Hope its quick and relatively painless when the hammer comes down.

Everything in the world is constantly in transit so I'm not afraid for myself but I do think it would be a real waste if I were to die now or prematurely. So I try not to.

I've been thinking hard on what I think life is and this is my thoughts.

It's said "no one lives for ever" but if we die and our existence is erased than we never existed in the first place even when we were alive. What is self-awareness? Some people may say it's the soul. Lets take a Humanoid machine like an android for example one day they may become so advanced they may even get mistaken has human. Their existence is more like emulation of life and even though they one day may be able to see feel and learn. They'll still be a machine and won't know they can feel see and learn they'll just act out. Where living things can do all that and are aware of it. It's a bit like we have this physical body and mind and our brains are full of knowledge which we've compiled but part of use that isn't tied to the body chooses what it wants to then uses out body has a machine the brain has a instructions book and our body to follow out what we want to do.

I think to say when we die we no longer exist is illogical. Now if we were a machine yes has we never existed in the first place. The fact we know we exist proves to me that life is more than just physical.

I f*cking hate it. I get suicidal yet I am afraid to die, it's so painful and confusing.

^I'm speaking from the past, I have been off of my medication which makes me feel suicidal, but I am not suicidal. Sorry to be confusing.

Sometimes I think, "What happens if I don't wake up?" and the answer is only grief of my Mom and my child. I don't want them to be sad. And this was all that kept me here during my last depression. I've never felt worse before, but it hasn't killed me! I got stronger than I've been before I believe that nothing can break me until I have something to live for.

I'm not really afraid of dying itself. I'm only afraid of the process leading up to it. I'm actually more afraid of others around me dying.

The thought of death is more an emotion of disappointment than fear. Really I feel the only thing that keeps me from wanting suicide is the thought that I might miss something interesting if I die too soon. Otherwise life pretty much sucks and I would rather not exist than exist.