re: Thanks Art
I have a few beliefs about people's attitude toward death.
First, I think people are more afraid they haven't lived, rather than of dying. "Is this all there is?" sort of thing.
Second, I believe a woman I read recently who said the ego can't imagine it not being there. Impossible for it to imagine a death where it would be gone.
And third, the idea of an afterlife is an effort by the soon to be departed and their loved ones to believe they can somehow stay in contact. Having someone upon whom we rely and depend simply jerked away is not easily handled any other way.
Arf