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Sleep is NOTHING like death. You're still experiencing lots of stuff, you still very much have a sense of self, you're still thinking things, your brain is still processing lots of information.
General anesthesia - now THAT is a real close period to what being dead is.
I've had general anesthesia, it was just like falling into a deep, dreamless sleep.
If death is like that, then there's absolutely nothing to be afraid of.
Probably is. If they gave you a little too much anesthesia so you didn't wake up, you would probably drift off the same, and then just not wake up.