TOTAL EXTINCTION?

There are those who hold that nothing survives death, that death is total extinction.

The one balking at this is the illusory, egoic self, who does not want to die ever.

But now if death is total extinction who will there be to be aware of it?  Who will be able to say, "Oh, I'm totally extinct now."

The Atman, on the other hand, does survive death and will be able to say, "Oh, I'm not totally extinct now," never having been, for that matter, even slightly extinct.