Late-life events
Late-life events create in us the inquisitiveness of what will happen if we die any time from the moment. It then brings us to the reality of mortality, impacting on us feelings of sorrow, despair, and self-fragmentation. From our experiences of life events, the fear of death arises mainly when seeing other people die or when a moment brings us so close to death, but luckily enough, we escape the ordeal. Consequently, we then start thinking about death and what happens after we die. The custom of amalgamating thoughts of death and life after death, in our daily life is an after-effect of contemplation of the impermanence of our lives. Life events have taught us not to view death as an end of life event but as a contemporary situation that happens time after time and is implanted in the continuity of our life. The ordeal reveals to us the mortality nature of our flesh and naturally creates in us the acceptance of the feebleness of life. Our thoughts then will mainly be based around life after death; what will happen to our loved ones if we die? Will society recognize us even after years of our death? Is there life after death?
Thinking about life after death and knowing that it is a fundamental attribute of our life creates a feeling of fear and desperation in every human being. Therefore, the fear of death has, in many instances, given birth to faith and religious belief in our life. After thinking about the ordeal and its consequences, we may want to seek hope and comfort, which is primarily found in churches and religious places. The thought of what happens after death also makes us worried we might want to have a great connection with God so that our destiny after death may be justified in the best manner.
Thinking about death can affect us psychologically. It causes a condition called death anxiety that makes people frightful and scared in very minor situations. The condition is caused by overthinking about death, how we will die, or how our loved ones will die and depart from us.