JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON HOW WE MANAGE CONFRONTING OUR AND/OR OTHERS' IMMINENT DYING AND DEATH. THE END....?!.

But, we might contemplate, if god has fated or not prevented our friend or our loved one, from having to suffer in the manner they are suffering.  

What reassurance can we have that god would treat us any more compassionately than god has treated or allowed our friend or relative to be treated by fate?

Yes, none. There can be no guarantees or reassurance that God would treat us more mercifully than our loved ones who are being put to the sword of suffering. 

Of course, how could it or why should it be otherwise? Why would a loving God spare us from the terrible fate which has befallen our relative, our friend, or even the stranger? 

Are we more desirable of his mercy and his compassion? Are we more angelic, altruistic and compassionate than the other person? 

Are we God's favourite, or someone who has done great works for which we are being or will be rewarded? 

Or is it the case that we have more influence on what we perceive as the ability of God to do this and that? 

How do we manage confronting our and others' imminent and death, is, most probably, a matter of personal 'choice.' 

We can imagine that it will include us navigating all the emotion range open to us. 

Us becoming very sad, anxious, shocked, angry, falling into moods of denial, and states of fear, of acceptance, of resignation and relief, freedom and hope.

We can imagine that we will or could share all of these feelings with others who are privy to the pain we are experiencing, as the primary or secondary 'victims' of the trauma. 

We can imagine that many of us, even probably most of us, having been socialised into the belief systems of our different religions, will seek some comfort in God and the promise of an after life. 

Some of us will continue to deceive ourselves into holding onto faiths and gods, which had been lacking in transforming the humanity into becoming a better species, in human form. 

And being comforted by the belief that we, or our loved ones, in death, will have gone to 'a better place.' 

Which probably is really the case, except that, it in not in the form of how our beliefs postulate it. 

But rather in the sense that, it is only in dying and achieving oblivion, that us humans become truly free from the sorrows and pains which mortal humans are fated to endure, while we are alive.

Thus should our cultures prepare us for our final liberation, without the further inducement of lying to us about what lies beyond, as it is only oblivion. Which should be the ultimate desire of all humans.