Death is the end

[Ninshub]

The notion that existence means nothing isn't any source of comfort either, and I have no idea how or why anyone should take it as such.

I think it IS a source of comfort for some people, who would prefer there is no afterlife or continuation of individual consciousness, regardless of whether they're proponents or skeptics or consider or know about the survival research/evidence. Although it's probably a minority (?), and certainly different from me. I think there all kinds of people with different sensibilities and temperaments.

In the "oneness" crowd of (many) Eastern-inspired meditators and Buddhists and now-moment cultivators, there seems to be an assumption that individual consciousness does not survive, and the tone is frequently of enjoying this life that much more so because it doesn't, and that meaning is an intellectual thing that actually takes you away from the richer appreciation of life. That's just one example.