"I'm not saying that I do not experience any of this fear myself, because I do. It is imbued in us early on through transference of the collective fear. Though as each individual challenges and conquers this fear, they lift the overall collective fear of death somewhat. Eventually a critical mass will occur in which a large enough majority overcome the fear, or embrace a new belief, so that it is no longer a seeming condition of "life" to fear death."

This is exactly how I feel!

I swear you always take the words right out my mouth. I wish you could talk some sense into my friend and my mother LOL! great post!