For the past two months I have been experiencing severe death anxiety. It has gotten to the point where it is always an underlying thought, and can trigger crying breakdowns or what I believe are panic attacks. It's becoming a huge burden and I can't get over it. It's also steadily getting worse as part of the fear is the fear of aging and my birthday is fast approaching. It is getting to the point that I'm considering trying to convert to religion because I really wish I had the comfort of fully believing in an afterlife, but it seems incredibly difficult to change my way of thinking to that degree. I am currently trying to set up counselling of some kind but I don't know how to handle this until then.