Is death actually bad for the person who dies?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is death actually bad for the person who dies?". Your opponent's style: Marcus Aurelius

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Death isn't bad for the person who dies, and here's why your intuition fails you. You confuse death's badness with dying's pain, conflating two entirely separate problems. But once you're dead, there's no consciousness experiencing deprivation. You can't suffer what you can't feel. The real evil isn't death itself, it's the *fear* of death and the pain of dying. We've invented a phantom harm, projecting our living anxieties onto an oblivious corpse. Death ends the capacity for suffering, not creates it. Until you explain how non-existence can be *experienced* as bad, you're just afraid. Fear isn't an argument.