Why do we look at death as a bad thing?

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-Why do we view at death as something bad?
-When people die why are everybody so sad,how do we know that this life is really something good and death is something bad?
-What is making us thinking that death is an bad thing,why don't we just accept it as a part of life?
-Why are people so caught up in thinking what comes after death? Why does it seem that we want to live for ever? Is there any neurological explanation for this.

Excuse my English.

Any replay is welcome this topic has been bugging me for a while so I would really appreciate if someone would share their view on this theme.

As for me, I don't fear the hereafter, but I do fear the process of death, starting, perhaps, at whatever injury leads to death. I'm a wimp as far as pain.

As for everything else, I just like life. It's just a hell of a lot more interesting to me than eternity. Earth, and particularly America, is an interesting place to live. I'm sure I'd feel differently if I grew up in a New Delhi or Cape Town slum, but I didn't.

I'm not looking forward to death, but I'm also too occupied with the current day to really give death much thought.

Now, excuse me while I get myself a slice of Vermont cheddar.