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Susana asked:

What I want to know is the expectation before we die. I'm used to fear dying, but I think that is a
philosophic question. If i die what is next? Why do we die? It's because of the same we are born, or I
would never have other life?

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We don't know what is next when we die. We die because we are biological organisms. If there is an
after-life, there is more cause for fear than if there is nothingness. What is an after-life like, and will
you like it? What if you hate it and it goes on forever? If there is no after-life and you simply cease to
exist, there is no cause to fear death since when you are dead you will have no mental or emotional
life.

Reasons to fear the dying process are pain and leaving those you love and who love you. This is
what we fear when we think about dying in the future. But when we have this fear we are not yet in
the process of dying. That is a future person and we do not know how we will feel. Death is
sometimes welcomed when it actually comes.

Rachel Browne