Everything is going to end. The weekends will end and then will be monday. Your vacation is going to end. Your life will end. Lives of your children will end, your grandchildren's lives will end and so on. The Sun will run out of fuel to maintain fusion and then remained white dwarf will cooldown. Eventually all stars will cooldown and even black holes will evaporate through Hawking radiation. Everything will run out of energy and this will be ultimate End. It doesn't matter whether end is nigh or not it is inevitable.

Personally (and that’s all any of us can base this on, in the end), for my own state of mind I have decided to 1) not think much about death and 2) think when I do that it isn’t the complete end of some essence/spirit/soul of ours.

It’s a matter of how I’m best able to go through life, and whenever it comes, to face whatever death is. Because when you are at the end of your life, I think that your own state of mind is the most important thing. Who does it hurt to have someone on their deathbed believe they will continue on in some way?

Other animals do not really have a sense of time. They understand the present and some remember the immediate past. Hardly any understand long term past (elephants are a known exception) and probably no animal except us thinks of distant future. Unless one thinks of distant future, it's impossible to think of one's own mortality. If one cannot think of self morality, life after death, god, hell, heaven and other related ideas don't arise at all.

In fact, I found this phenomenon so strange, non- descriptive and extremely confusing more than anytime after I recently lost my lovely grandmother.

Our genes live on in our children after our death. That's a very real kind of immortality. Apart from that, there is no evidence that there is anything beyond this life. It's the only one. When we die, we die. Before being born and after death we cease to exist as sapient individuals but the species lives on.