Death is only one thing, that is when they cremate or bury you. One’s sense of self does not routinely die. Do you have a source for this?Skyblack wrote: ↑June 21st, 2021, 11:55 pmYes. That's why in OP one started by saying, "All fear is the fear of death",.True, ignorance cancels fear, except that awareness of one’s ignorance can spur fear.
If one observes, there are two kinds of death. One biological when the organism dies, and one psychological when one's sense of self (an image) routinely dies . The latter happens every time we experience shock, pain, grief, sorrow etc. The sense of self, the "me", is obviously entwined to both the body and the psyche.
So when moments of uncertainty arises in ones' life, it immediately triggers fear via the pathways of experience and memory. For example one may think: i was hurt yesterday, i may get hurt tomorrow,, or, i was insure yesterday i may be insecure tomorrow.
Unable to cope with the fear of death (whether physical or psychological) the mind believes in some ideas. Without getting into the legitimacy of those ideas, the fact remains that any movement towards those ideas is a movement of fear trying to find security.
This is the reverse side of the coin. I have already in detail gone into the observe side of the coin, prior to this post.
Uncertainty causes fear, this is true. Such as losing one’s job. Death is a certainty, that is why you buy insurance.