If people assume there's a "right or a wrong way" to die, they may assume they have control over the where, when and how. Suicide excluded, it doesn't appear to me that we, as individuals, have a large amount of control over the exact timing of this future event.
If death is a question of changing consciousness, your belief system may somehow determine if you choose to come back. After all, in life, we shape consciousness according to our hopes and desires (or lack of them). Some belief systems even deny the idea of reincarnation as a collective choice.
Some people favour the concept of reincarnation since it offers hope for social, psychological or circumstantial advancement. Ironically, this doesn't necessaily seem to be a reflection of increasing detachment. I wonder how we, as individuals, might guide the nature or mechanism of rebirth even if something we can't see or grasp in life is also involved? This intrigues me.
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