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In your experience, what if you, what is really the root cause of our anxiety around death?

Is it fear of uncertainty, of pain, of just what comes up for people?

You just nailed it. I think it's the fear of uncertainty and it could be the fear of pain

and suffering. But when I talk about overcoming the fear of death with people, the first thing I do is help them identify what their fear really is about.

Because if the fear is really about their own death then that's one kind of set of discussions and

solutions we have if it's about somebody else's death or if it's about the fear of

somebody else dying or if it's a fear about their own death but not what happens to them

after they die physically biologically but their fear may be about like what you just

reference how I'm gonna to die. Is it going to be pain and suffering involved?

That's also a different discussion with slightly different solutions. So that's an identifying part of the conversation first that I need to have with people but

the most common things are fear of uncertainty and fear of pain and suffering I think for most people and the fear of uncertainty is is really

what it distills down to because people are I don't know what's going to happen.

Right.

Right.

Right.

It makes sense why we're all so anxious.

Yes.

Yeah, we're walking around not knowing when or how or what happens.

So what would you tell somebody who the fear around death

is the fact that they might not be able to see

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