As a general description of the interaction between “I” and death, this seems rather well put.
But who is to really say that, when one attempts to integrate all of the various conflicting reactions to death from a “scientific” and a “philosophical” and a “religious” and a “psychological” frame of mind, the one and only manner in which to truly understand it is able to emerge wholly in sync with Reality.
We just don’t know.
There is what we profess to believe about it “self-consciously”, and there are all the ways in which that is intertwined in the subconscious and the unconscious frames of mind. And all of the ways that is intertwined with our own unique set of experiences with death.
And clearly religion was invented as the shortcut answer of choice: God.
It’s all [ultimately] about Him and His mysterious ways.
And if that works to allay the fear and anxiety, you can simply stop there and be done with it.
But for folks like me there is the problem of reaching that frame of mind. You can’t just “will” yourself to believe it. It’s not like just flicking on a light switch. After all, how exactly does one go about taking that Kierkegaardian “leap” to God? And while you can place a Pascalian “wager” on Him, is God really fooled?
Instead, folks like me have go out and search for alternative frames of mind; and then figure out a way to integrate them into that which, given the life that I have lived so far, they either do or do not make sense.