Goodness Cindy....If you are afraid of death, don't you think it's time to address that?
Shakespeare said, "Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant taste of death but once." Time to cowboy up.
Or then, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil."
Fear....
What a nasty enemy. He paralyzes and cripples us. Fear corners us, makes us hang on tight to what we think is our security and safety, and won't let us move forward.
My experience has been that there is only one weapon that can kill fear, and that is faith.
Fear, no matter whether of death, or of losing your retirement pension, or of dogs... Fear binds us. We cannot let go and live. The answer then is to develop faith.
Faith is the true, complete, unshakeable inner knowledge that the universe (God?) created us and will take care of us, and no matter what happens it's ok.
The Bhagavad Gita says "All things born in truth must die, and out of death in truth comes life. Face to face with what must be, cease thou from sorrow. Invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again. They are seen between two unseens. Why in this truth find sorrow?"
Near as I can figure, I will die in April 2014. But guess what. I'm alive and well in the here and now, still breathing, and having fun. I am thankful that I got to be a man who lived on this Earth and saw the sunsets, smelled the flowers, rode the oceans, held hands with beautiful women, rocked a baby, played in the snow....and when my day comes, when the show is over, I will just walk out of the theater with no regrets, a song in my heart. What is there to fear? Carpe diem -- it's all you've got.
I AM. That's the long and short of it. Do you really think you will cease to be? I pity you.