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Most people do not want to think about death. It is not a pleasant subject. 

In fact, much of human endeavour, according to some observers, is a deliberate attempt to deny the reality of death; it is powered by the innate fear of death that lies in every human heart. In his book, The Denial of Death, American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker notes that such denial takes many forms, including the ambition to achieve and to own.

But while the fear of death works secretly, unrecognised or disowned by people, everyone ultimately has to deal with the fear of death: the Bible describes people “who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death” (Hebrews 2:15).