[Serious] Comfort in Faith at Death

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don’t see how.
Believing you’re passing on to a much
better place to be with people you love
and miss seems a lot more comforting
than believing you’re going to cease to
exist.

Then how come so many religious people are so sad and scarred when they are dying?

Because most Western religions have inculcated these poor saps with the notion that, no matter how good they were, they were never quite good enough.  Hammering the fear of everlasting damnation into the very core of peoples' beings is bound to make many of them a little antsy when near death.

Boru