I would argue that our view of death needs to change.
There are many reasons to believe that life is never extinguished; we simply change form.
One of the great break-throughs in our knowledge of this was made in the latter half of the twentieth century by Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist who stumbled unintentionally into being able to put people in a very deep trance where they could access not just the subconscious but the super-conscious.
His research and his wisdom are contained in two volumes, one called Journey of Souls [in 1994] and the second, Destiny of Souls, [2000].
There were other hypnotherapists in different parts of the world who stumbled into the same area of consciousness at the same time, independently and unknown to each other.
I choose to cite Newton here because I have found him to be the best at interpreting what he saw, but all the accounts are worth reading.
Thousands of sessions were held with fascinating results.
Newton himself was a complete unbeliever as to the afterlife before he came across this startling evidence.
Whilst in the superconscious state people were able to remember past lives, past deaths and, quite astonishingly, their lives between lives in the so-called spirit world and their preparations for a new earth life.
The books shed light on the reasons for the temporary separation caused by the death of loved ones.
They bring enormous comfort to anyone in the depths of sorrow and grief, and they inspire us to try and make a new life worthy of our loved ones who have passed over.
They also show the truth of reincarnation.
They show that Hell as a place of confinement and punishment does not exist.
They show the vast ordered planes of existence beyond earth, but also planes of existence on the earth that are invisible to us most of the time.
Skeptics will immediately scoff, but we are talking here about information coming through very intelligent human beings from all walks of life, information about our own race by ordinary members of our own race.
The stories are all individual and the books are based on the incredible similarities that form a pattern of undeniable reality.
If you are interested in knowing that your life predates the current one and that it never actually ends then these two books alone will be well worth reading.
I personally have no link with Michael Newton and nothing to gain by promoting him.
I just believe the time has come to change our world view about what death is and what it is not.
Knowing that your life is purposeful and not random will inspire you to reach for greater success and creativity.
Knowing that your loved one passed over is still very much alive, active and close to you will bring deep comfort to you.
There are other sources of knowledge about the so-called afterlife that agree totally with the knowledge in these two books and I have spoken about them elsewhere.
I say "so-called afterlife" because in truth life is a continuum; we change form often but we never die.
Each personality is inviolate and is never extingushed.
It evolves endlessly.