Decreasing the Death Anxiety Using Buddhist Psychology

Abstract

Death is a part of life and it can happen anytime according to the Three Characteristics. No one can escape death. If we clearly realize that the death is a normal part of life, we will can accept the loss and separation. Buddhism teaches us to accept the natural law, everyone who is born will die. If we cannot accept it, we will suffer. So how we do to understand and accept that death are the facts of life, namely the Eternal Truth. When someone we know is sick, we have to try to help, look after and treat them until he or she is fully recovered. At the same time, we use the death that we do not know when to arrive as a stimulant on human development. When the death is approaching, Buddhism regards it as the last chance to develop our mental toughness. So, if we do it well, it will help us to move forward to the better future life. Counselling for people who have death anxiety by using the Buddhist psychology will help them see the natural Dharma phenomenon of the upcoming changes and accept the upcoming death. In this way, we should always consider the death, this leads us to see a change of Five Groups of Personality called Khan Five. This can help the patients have no sadness inside their minds, keeping their minds off the frustration. To do so, it will bind their minds with good things, making them feel peace of mind, have bright minds, and have faith in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha at the time of death. When we see our changing body, we are not attached to material things as important things in life.This will lead us to abandonment when the end-of-life crisis arrives. In this way, the patients will pass away peacefully like the sleeping persons and it is considered a good and conscious death. Therefore, if we understand the death, being aware of the state of it, and being ready for it, we will properly encounter the death to reduce the death anxiety in preparation for good death. This is because everyone has an opportunity to prepare for a good death just one time. No matter what we do to prepare yourself, the patients we look after, and the persons we love, we do it like that for the good death.