There are several salient points in this piece, but overall it seems to have more to do with not thinking about death... or at least not worrying about it....
"This life is enough, if you are here for it. The people worried about death are the ones not truly living. They are the ones who know in their hearts that they need more time."
"The kind of further existence that religions offer me tends to be in a place where we are no longer hungry or horny, where we have wings instead of desire. But who are we in a place where our troubles no longer trouble us, and we no longer need balm for the wounds of it all, nor medicine for the madness?"
"I like being alive. As far as I know, I always will be alive. I understand that this sounds strange but think about it: You will not know it when you are dead, just as you did not know it before you were born, so it is none of your business. As far as you are concerned, you are always alive. It is awful to lose someone and worse when the person dies young. Nothing about God or the afterlife improves that: With or without God childhood leukemia and teenage car-accident fatalities are tragic beyond words. An adult who gets a bad diagnosis has reasons to feel sad too. It is sad to leave others behind, but I don’t see anything so sad about going."
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