To die means to change shape, move on and do anything else.
Ignoring the fact that with physical death a major change approaches and is inevitabel, blocks the understanding for death and predecease in our society. Therefore many people are dying in a state of acute dread, while their families and doctors try to keep them alive as long as possible. Such a process of dying lacks grace and dignity.
In our "modern western world" people have forgotten how to die in grace and dignity. We haul the dying to hospitals where death is considered disease and the life is eked out at all costs. Families don't know how to find an ending after the pass away of a beloved one. Both sides don' t know how to release. Many pass away without saying "i love you" or "i forgive you", which would be so curative for every person involved.
Fondly relationships between man are interrupted in no way through the fact of physical death. Even those who show no shamanic or medial skills continues their relationship to the departed. Dialogues with the spirits of the beloved ones help the bereaved to bypass the sorrow und move on with life. In this way the unspoken can be said or can be forgiven each other.
Life is a pilgrimage: At birth you move off, at death you arrive.