Secure with mortality?

"The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast, moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear - no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,The anasthetic from which none come round."

-Philip Larkin

I think this obviously explains the fear our society places on death. Now, although the author of this quote implies that he is more 'knowing' than the readers in that he/she can explain that death is an inevitability, it seems that he is trying to convince his or her self that he is at peace with death. The fact that he or she is even writing a piece on this becomes evident that he or she is very insecure with the entire idea of death. Oh and by the way, it became very clear to me that the author isn't secure with the idea of death by how he or she could explain in such detail of how death would be: "no sight, no sound, No touch or taste or smell, nothng to think with, Nothing to love or link with." If one was so secure with the idea of death, then there would be no need to analyze this so deeply. I also find it interesting that he goes from general ideas early in the passage and later in the passage he delves deeper into his mind and explains every little thing that he fears in death. The way he explains death and how he explained religion shows that he is definitely not affiliated with any type of religion at all. He doesn't say that there is a better place, only that it is a place where the 5 senses become obsolete.

I don't blame the author though, I am not so sure that I am completely secure with the idea of death. Though I am only 18, and still have a long way to go in life, hopefully, I am also insecure with death. I understand what he is trying to say when he says that the senses are all gone. How he explains this definitely applies to me because everybody dies and nobody is immortal.