It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Death is the unknown in which all of us lived before birth.

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

Igual que en el momento de venir al mundo, al morir tenemos miedo de lo desconocido. Pero el miedo es algo interior que no tiene nada que ver con la realidad.

We fear what we do not understand...

"Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change." - Clara the clairvoyant

Wir existieren nicht mehr, wo wir sind; wir existieren nur, wo wir nicht sind. Ist es dann der Mühe wert, dass wir eine solch große Furcht vor dem Tod haben, wenn die Bedingung, in welcher und durch welche wir leben, dieselbe bleibt?

No, child, you’re wrong. They’re not the same. Life means hope, death is nothing at all.

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

We don't expect to know
what Persephone is doing.
She is dead, the dead are mysteries.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does not want to come to an end. . . . What you are afraid of is not death. In fact, you don't want to be free from fear. . . . It is the fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead. What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new science, new talk, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. Fear is the very thing that you do not want to be free from. What you call “yourself” is fear. The “you” is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions in fear and dies in fear.