Question

what happens when we die?​

Answer 1

Answer:

what it looks like – are scarce until we suddenly face it head on, often for the first time with the loss of a loved one.

"We hold a lot of anxiety about what death means and I think that's just part of the human experience," says Associate Professor Mark Boughey, director of palliative medicine at Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital. "Some people just really push it away and don't think about it until it's immediately in front of them."

But it doesn't need to be this way, he says.

"The more people engage and understand death and know where it's heading ... the better prepared the person is to be able to let go to the process, and the better prepared the family is to reconcile with it, for a more peaceful death."