People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

The remark sets the speaker against a common human reflex: fear of death. By claiming to be “the opposite,” Caldwell frames death not as an ultimate terror but as something approached with equanimity—or even with a kind of readiness. The blunt contrast (“People… I…”) suggests a deliberate refusal of social consensus and hints at a worldview shaped by disillusionment, spiritual conviction, or hard experience. Read as a public persona statement, it also functions as a provocation: it challenges the listener to examine whether fear of dying is inevitable, or whether it is culturally learned and therefore resistible.