Prayer

Gods grant
Long life and
Conditions conducive to
Contemplation and liberation.

Beyond Birth And Death

The only way not to die is not to be born.
Would we exist if we were not born?
Only if we are pre-existent souls which some believe but I don't.
Materialists and Buddhists agree that there are no souls.

If you and I had not been born, then the one reality would still exist.
It would still be conscious of itself through many organisms although not through you or me.
The One would exist in a different form.
Were non-existence or unconscious being possible?

I suspect that being and nothing interact and that all potentialities are realized but who knows?
"That god who sees in highest heaven, he alone knows or perhaps he knows not." (See here.)