by Todd Daigneault

Created on: April 09, 2009   Last Updated: December 07, 2009

Some people are afraid of dying-for it is the ultimate loss in our three-dimensional reality. We are suddenly transcended from being able to breathe, to touch, to feel into a complete cessation of consciousness...an endless sleep for some with no dreams. Or is heaven the 'dream-state' that others who aren't afraid of dying go on to experience? Whatever the case is, there are two disparaging views of death and dying. Dying is part of living and we are all acutely aware of that from our earliest years to pur far more older years. It is the ultimate event we will all face sooner or later. It's just how much that ultimate event will affect our thinking.

Those follow religious scriptures or even secular beliefs may also fear dying out of a belief that they may not necessarily go to a heaven-like paradise. After all, even that fear can filter into the most religious mind. Since none of us really know what to expect in the great 'beyond', a fear is what will it really be like. There is some compelling evidence to suggest a light, a tunnel, deceased relatives and friends standing around, waiting to escort us to the next reality. But what is it? That can scare even some ardent believers, religious or not, into what may be beyond.

It's uncertainty...simple as that. Human beings are usually conditioned to follow paths and plans throughout their lives. We all hate uncertainty. Imagine the worst uncertainty:-death. We live in this three-dimensional 'bubble' all of our lives, and suddenly we face being suddenly and irrevocably ripped out of it, to not only not know what happens until we are gone. With the diehard, disbelievers, it's far worse...and ultimately far more painful. It is complete extinction for them...the long sleep without the dream-state of afterlife, or any flicker of consciousness.

Fear of death does mean complete extinction and extinguishment for them. Humans have a strong survival extinct, found in the reptilian part of the human brain. Therefore, fear of death becomes more profound because of that, irregardless of dogma, secularness, and complete skeptical beliefs. For those totally not afraid of dying, they seem to know all of the next steps after...and ultimately paradise, or a paradisical realm, where they may be young forever, free of disease, surrounded by their family, dearest loved ones, and ascenioned spiritual masters, guides and angels.

They find an inner-peace with themselves. But even for those who don't necessarily share that belief, death

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