I just remember that I will die,
And then I don't feel so bad.
Exactly, robin: I think of it as The Great Escape.
On the one hand, the unbearable must end; on the other, the beautiful becomes more exquisite by its transience.
The Greek gods were said to envy humankind their mortality.
I do sometime succumb to Future Envy, when life spans will be much longer (if anything at all survives our depredations).
In both hands, brandy is excellent.