Humans, despite of our racial, ethno and lingual difference, are purely similar. All of us, despite our geographic differences experience the same psychological anxieties, fears, dreams, yearning to succeed, intuitive traits to question our surroundings, and for the most part (though there are those who deny the existence of a greater force), are subject to religious doctrine that provides a moral backing in times of need and of comfort. In life, we are so amalgamated to stress, to deal with it, though it comes in multiple forms--per se--giving birth, raising children, working and providing the source of sustenance for dependents, providing physical and psychological care to friends, family etc. All of these activities manifests some sort of stress, which we both detest, fear, love, get used to. The journey of life, which differs from person to person, enables all of us to experience these kinds of feelings, and though we complain certain aspects of our lives--in the trueness of it all, we do accept and enjoy it (either subconsciously or outright). We fear death because we fear the alienation of our joys, happiness, yearnings, needs, and all the factors that enables endorphinitic effects, positive conditionings (laughing with family, hugging your child, husband, wife, mother, grandfather, grandmother, eating and making jokes as you laugh, etc). Death is a total loss of such experiences, it is complete and final. There is no return from death, despite one's dreams and innate want and need to see loved ones again.
In the medical and biological field, death is final. Decomposition of the body, which is the manifestation of the absoluteness of death, tells us that though we humans as apex species, cannot explain how so much emotions we experience in life, faith etc, can be so totally removed. Deleted, so to say, in the phase of death. It is a natural fear, a natural state, that not only humans experience, but all other animals in different genus, phylum and kingdoms in God's green earth also experience. Do not carabaos cry and panic as they are fatally bitten by crocodiles? Do not lion cubs scream before death when they are mauled by hyenas in the absence of their mother and lion pack? Do not birds twitch before they starve to death when their mother and father do not come back after gathering sustenance? Yet, despite nature's cruelness at times, death is part of life. Just as we, as people, need to rest after a hard days work in the farm, in the hospital, in the pharmacy, in the painting studio, in the bank, in the engineering firm; so to our bodies. In our lives, our body constantly is in work, our heart pumps over 60 gallons of blood throughout our system every day and tirelessly since its formation in the womb, our lungs pump air tirelessly in in order to provide oxygenated blood throughout the cardiothoracic, respiratory, and nervous system; the same applies for our liver, kidneys, gall bladder, prostate, brain etc. An organ,organism,population can only operate for so long--we are finite beings, not infinite. We are not God or Gods, despite our yearning to live forever, to experience continuously---God did not create and plan our bodies for that intended purpose. Just as we were conceived in the womb and given life in birth, so too is it natural for us to experience death. It is a necessary part of life.
Fear of death is anxiety (or emotional recoil) experienced in anticipation of the event. Such fearful anticipation is basically the result of a failure to observe the death process in others and to study that process through systematic education and self-observation.Death is a necessary, purposeful, and (ultimately) benign psycho-physical process. It is similar to the process of giving birth, except that it occurs to both males and females. As in the case of preparing for childbirth, you must study the death process bodily and through observing others. Above all, tension and fear must be relaxed during the death process (as it must be in the case of a woman in childbirth).You must relax and release, as when going to sleep — in a feeling of deep trust, love, and surrender to the Divine Reality on Which the process depends.
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