You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.
Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.
Once you start a war, you have to win.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.