>>1 Accept that while everything is impermanent, death is not necessarily the absolute end. I think two things scare us about death 1. The fear of losing loved ones 2. The fear of ceasing to exist. In essence, these are the same fear, which is the fear of loss and this is rooted in desire and us wanting to own stuff. There's a lot of capitalist (and socialist) brainwashing in there too: it good to constantly amass stuff. Coming to terms with death might require embracing a different worldview.
The idea that afterlife, ghosts, fairies etc. don't exist and are just additional fluff layered onto a natural world (for better or worse) only makes sense if you buy into a certain brand of metaphysics, which isn't necessarily philosophically correct or the only model available, its just assumed to be true because society rams it down our throats.
Accept that while everything is impermanent, death is not necessarily the absolute end. I think two things scare us about death 1. The fear of losing loved ones 2. The fear of ceasing to exist. In essence, these are the same fear, which is the fear of loss and this is rooted in desire and us wanting to own stuff. There's a lot of capitalist (and socialist) brainwashing in there too: it good to constantly amass stuff. Coming to terms with death might require embracing a different worldview.
The idea that afterlife, ghosts, fairies etc. don't exist and are just additional fluff layered onto a natural world (for better or worse) only makes sense if you buy into a certain brand of metaphysics, which isn't necessarily philosophically correct or the only model available, its just assumed to be true because society rams it down our throats.