To be honest, I'm scared shitless of dying also. I don't know why that is a reason to abandon reason and embrace bad statistics. I would even say that losing my ability to think clearly and arrive at probably approximately almost not completely ridiculously wrong conclusions is at least as terrifying as dying (or at least as terrifying as dying young in a horrible manner).
Death is really scary shit and I get that someone with the money and connectionts of Kurzweil can convince himself that it won't happen to him, but we must all realise that, at this point, that's just a pipe dream.
I don't mind him toying with an idea of immortality within his lifetime if it takes an edge from the pain. You can even argue that it can be considered as a some kind of a personal religion, albeit more scientific.
What I'm not happy is so many folks calling him a prophet and jumping this magic-nanothech-30year-singularity bandwagon.
