Death, of course, comes to each of us, and there are literally a thousand ways to die. Indeed, one eventually must die of something, be it old age, accident, war, or disease.
This is an inexorable existential fact of life. Death has always, in all cultures, been a mysterium tremendum, an immense mystery.
What happens after death--if anything beyond decay, decomposition and gradual disintegration--is still pure speculation. And, psychologically, such speculation, whether that of science, philosophy or religion, serves one primary purpose: the demystification of death in an endeavor to mediate or eliminate our existential anxiety about it.
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