Thinking about this a little, it's not clear to me that AI would have a problem with death. We seem unnecessarily asymmetric, caring a lot about our ego not existing in the future when we hardly consider that it already didn't exist for a very long time in the past, but that's probably evolutionary due to the embodiment?

— "Make me one with everything," said the monk to the hot dog vendor

(Vendor gives hot dog to monk, monk pays)

— "..." waits the monk

— "How much was that hot dog, anyway? I gave you a 20" says the monk

— "Change," replies the vendor, "is an illusion."