If you lived three thousand years, or even ten thousand, remember this: you can only lose the life you are living right now. The life you live is nothing more than what you lose moment by moment. So the longest life and the shortest life come to the same thing. The past may differ between people, but the present moment is equal for everyone. This present moment is what we lose when we die. So clearly, we only lose an instant. You cannot lose what is past or future. How can you lose what you do not have?
If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, yet remember this, that man can part with no life properly, save with that little part of life, which he now lives: and that which he lives, is no other, than that which at every instant he parts with. That then which is longest of duration, and that which is shortest, come both to one effect. For although in regard of that which is already past there may be some inequality, yet that time which is now present and in being, is equal unto all men. And that being it which we part with whensoever we die, it doth manifestly appear, that it can be but a moment of time, that we then part with. For as for that which is either past or to come, a man cannot be said properly to part with it. For how should a man part with that which he hath not?