Fear of death — causes and consequences.

Why does the fear of death arise?

Fear of death is one of the most common fears among people. And he is natural. After all, preserving life is our natural instinct. But sometimes it takes phobic forms, torments you with inappropriate obsessive thoughts, and arises without any reason for real danger. And here I want to talk about where exactly this fear came from.

Before you is Lord Shiva in the picture. Do you know who this is? He is considered the destroyer of the Universe. That is, the ancients assumed, just like modern science, that the Universe would also someday be finite.

Do you know who his wife is? Goddess Parvati. And she is the embodiment of the energy of life. Death is next to Life. That which kills and that which gives birth are together. And they are a couple. And this is the norm. What is conveyed in the metaphor of these Hindu gods is the norm of our life that everyone knows about. What then does everyone disagree with and fear? No, not death itself. And the ideas of finitude. I’ll explain now:

Those who have a phobia about death, let’s remember what their teachers taught them in childhood:

If you got hurt somewhere, what was your mom’s reaction?

• That’s it, this is a disaster, this should not have happened, this is horror. The child understands this as the fact that now his mother is suffering from coping with him. Which means he’s bad.
• So what if you got hurt? Go on and…