Problem is, when you are asleep you wake up after and it only seems like 1 minute after your head has hit the pillow.
When you're dead you don't awake from that so you wont recall anything.
Even nothingness has some sort of feeling to it. Eternal blackness - has to be some sort of conciousness there to feel that
Personally I believe that the end of your own life is the beginning of a new one. Bit like falling asleep and waking up the next morning but as someone/something else
Each to their own at the end of the day though