Why it's generally counterproductive to be afraid of death after 30 years of age

Under 30 years of age it is worth being somewhat afraid if only to find ways to stay alive because there are just so many forces within and without young people driving them unmercifully to their early graves. And any who survive this likely only make it by God's Grace and that alone.

But over 30 years of age all this changes (and if it doesn't then that person likely isn't going to make it anyway in many but not most cases).

So, over 30 a Meditation on Impermanence helps a spiritual person cope with temporal (temporary Life) here on earth. This also maximizes the good you can do in any given lifetime generally speaking.

When I went to India and Nepal with my family in 1985 and 1986 the amazing amount of dead people on the streets then acted as my meditation in impermanence and was very helpful to me in moving on away from "Disneyland" ways we tend to have in thinking about death here in the U.S.

Yogis in the past often recommended other yogis sit for a month by a decaying human body and watch it putrify there to meditate on just what happens to an unattended human body and to move that person towards enlightenment.

However, because of the way we are raised here in the U.S. I think that would just make most people from the U.S. insane completely and not create the desired outcome.

However, if you were already raised in a poor or middle Class 3rd world nation you already get what I'm talking about because you have already seen hundreds of people dying that you either knew or have met along the way.

So, learning how you can focus upon what will help you and your families and friends survive and prosper here on earth likely might be more useful than locking your door and worrying about dying because mostly that is just going to make you crazy and nothing else.

So, a meditation on impermanence and accepting your physical body might not be here too long (no matter who you are) might be the most useful thing you can do (if you are over 30).

The reason I recommend this for people over 30 is this kind of meditation for an American or European or Canadian, Australian or whatever westernized country for someone under 30 might be fatal.

But, then again to each his own.

By the time I went to India in 1985 and 1986 I had had enough relatives and friends die including my own father 6 months before I went there, so I was prepared for what I experienced even though it likely added another layer of PTSD to already losing all my grandparents and several friends already by age 37.

Here's the thing about life on earth: "No one gets out of here alive!"

But, "In my Soul I AM Forever Free!"