Towards the Preparations for Death and Post-Death: the Role of Initiatives

It is a very well-known fact that death is as natural as to that of birth and whoever is born must die ultimately putting an end to the life lead between birth and death. Many people go scary of death and live in a delusion that it can be conquered in the much technologically advanced medical scenario. But when death occurs, they cannot cope with the grief. So many philosophers and spiritual practitioners strive to educate the people to face the death as it is inevitable and one must be ready to accept it, irrespective of age. The fear of death causes lots of tension and a kind of trauma in the aged people as well as people suffering from severe ailments. A sense of insecurity pervades in the aged people mainly because of their thoughts about the death. Being very sentimental, many people do not even try to utter the word “death”, even by mistake, as they believe that gods will grant it if listened to it. What makes the people to go scary about death? How to overcome the fear of the death? What are the preparations to face it? Against this backdrop this paper intends to make an enquiry into the role of certain organizations in the Indian set up to prepare people to talk about death and to face it.