When you say, I—I—I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.
Schopenhauer is saying that our individuality is an illusion. It is merely a conscious manifestation of the Universe. Our desire to avoid death is the voice of all the consciousnesses of the universe exclaiming as a whole that they do not wish to perish. And after your individual death, they will still be there, so don't worry ;-)
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