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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Fifty Lessons on Principles of Belief for Youths Lesson 41: One Crucial Question: Is Death considered as One’s End or Beginning? Why Do Most People Fear Death? Most people fear death. Why? Death has always been imagined to be a great, frightening monster and just thinking about it takes away the sweetness of life.
Not only do they fear the word ‘death’ but they also hate the word ‘cemetery’ and they try to forget about its basic nature by lighting and brightening the graves and tombs. The effects of this fear is clearly visible in the various literatures of the world where it is expressed as ‘the monster of death’, ‘the jungle of death’, ‘the death knoll’, etc.
When they want to mention the name of a dead person, so that the person addressed not panic, they use sentences like ‘far from here’, ‘may I be struck dumb’, ‘there be seven mountains between’, and ‘may his dust give you life’ in an attempt to create a wall between the person who is listening and death. But we have to analyze how this fear developed the human being.
Why is there a group, as opposed to the understanding of the majority of the people, who not only do not fear death but thinking about it makes them smile and welcome an honorable death?
We read in history that whereas one group were looking for the elixir of life, another group lovingly moved towards the fronts of jihad, laughed at the image of death and they were in anticipation of the day when they would join their Beloved and today, also, in the battlefronts of truth against falsehood, we see this very truth whereby they move with their life in their hands, towards martyrdom.
The Basic Reason for this Fear With research and study we reach this point that the basis for this fear is simply one of two things: The Interpretation of Death as Annihilation Human beings always flee from non-existence and from disease because it means the lack of good health; are afraid of darkness because it means a lack of light. They fear poverty because it means the destruction of wealth. They even sometimes fear an empty home and an empty wilderness. Why? Because nobody is there!
They even fear a dead person. They are not prepared to spend the night in a room with a dead person whereas when that person was alive, they did not fear him. Now let us see why human beings fear non-existence and non-being. The reason is clear. Existence is woven into existence. Being is familiar with being.