Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.