Death means coming to an end, coming to end of all the things you are attached to: your Gods, beliefs, Church, culture, everything, and your relationship physically comes to an end. But there is always this longing, the hope that even though the physical organism comes to an end, there must be some element, some essence of me that will continue. And that fear that you may not continue must naturally affect your daily life. Therefore it is imperative, if one is at all serious, to understand what it means to live and to die.