We can face death calmly if we have lived our thanks for the gift of life by using our abilities for ourselves and each other. That is how our psychology calls us to live and living our call is enormously comforting.
I am old and in poor health, so facing death is real for me. It took me 70 years to discover what my call was and find that I had been trying to live it even though I couldn’t define it. I’m incredibly grateful for the many years of my life and the comfort that living my thanks has brought me.
It seems to me that death is part of the gift of life because we only learn by comparing and contrasting. Death is the contrast to life that teaches us how precious life is. Death gives us our profound gratitude for the gift of life. Death contributes to awe.
We seem to live in a universe that is so profoundly good that it gives us life and it gives us death so that we can value life. We have every reason to trust that universe about both life and death.