Because it isn't any better or worse, it's nothing.
why is it so hard to accept the fact that this scares the fuck out of people? we have no idea what its like to be "nothing".
Yes we do, its the exact same as it was for the billions of years prior to our birth. It was nothing and it was neither good or bad and it'll go right back to being that way. Unless you believe in an afterlife then it's redundant because if you're not truly dead in that case, you've just entered a new plane of existence
but the idea of that scares people too because we can't comprehend it. not existing isn't something that people just say, ok, about ---