to live is to die and to die is to live.  you are never alone.  sometimes people get caught up in their own mortality. Faith is not something to be overlooked. Had a buddy that had kidney problems WTW 69' waited 7 plus years for a transplant. The organ match never came through.  When I visited him at GWU hospital close to the end of his life I asked him if he was scared to die and his reply to me was that he had angels.  Also being a person of faith after that death has never been an obstacle for me.  As far as I am concerned it's just the end of  the beginning.