People are afraid of death because of fear of the unknown, that is, because they do not know what the soul is and what really happens to the soul after physical death. The soul leaves the physical body after physical death. This happens when she knows she has learned enough in this physical life and can leave it. No matter what the nature of death; accidental, due to illness or natural, death happens exactly at the moment in which it had to happen. After death, the soul leaves or remains on Earth for some time. She will leave when she is ready to leave and when the (living) people staying behind allow her to leave, which is usually the case. This usually happens 40 days after death. Within those 40 days, the soul says goodbye to those it left behind. I know my grandmother told me when my grandfather died that she felt him touch her hair in the first couple of weeks. Also when my budgie died I heard the sound of her feet running across the table towards me within days of her death as she did when she was alive. When my paternal aunt died, I was at the funeral. When I entered the church, there was no one except the coffin and me. I telepathically addressed my aunt and asked her if she wanted me to consecrate her with holy water right away or maybe later? My throat suddenly started to scratch a lot and I immediately answered her telepathically that I understood that she wanted me to do it right away, as I did, and the scratchy in my throat stopped instantly.
When it comes to the soul remaining on Earth, it happens for two reasons. One is when he wants to be with the one person he leaves behind and wants to protect him. I believe you have heard of many cases, when a deceased brother saves a sister from certain death in a traffic accident or a deceased mother saves her child from certain death or serious injuries. These souls are aware that they have died, but they stay with their loved ones until they feel they need them. Another case is when souls remain because they are not aware of their death or do not want to give up the worldly things they left behind at death. In such cases, the souls remain on Earth for another time until they realize that they are dead and must leave this earthly world and move on. If they don’t know how to leave on their own, then they want to draw our attention to the fact that they need help to leave Earth. These are “captured” souls whom we should help, not fear. You are familiar with stories about “haunted” castles, dungeons, houses, but such things also happen to the people around us. One person told me that the pictures on her wall started moving and asked me what to do. I live in a Catholic society where funeral mass is given for the dead. It turned out that this person had died a year earlier and that due to a combination of circumstances he was not given a memorial mass. I told that person to do it. After she did that, such a phenomenon did not occur again. Even if you don’t know which deceased it is, the intention is important.
What people are also afraid of is entering the astral, that is, the experience of astral projection, which happens very often in children, and less often in adults. People are not aware of this because they are afraid of death, so their consciousness does not allow them to remember such events after they wake up from a dream, since astral projection usually happens in a dream. People are usually only aware that something has happened, but they don’t know what, and in fact they were in the astral, when someone or something suddenly woke them up, so they had the feeling of a sudden fall and an instant violent awakening, or they remember that they were flying in a dream. Astral projection is the exit of the soul from the physical body where the soul is attached to it by an energetic umbilical cord. The length of that energetic umbilical cord is unlimited. During the time that the soul is outside the physical body, it functions smoothly. Astral projection often occurs when the physical body is very tired. Given that the body works 24 hours a day from conception to death, in order to rest as well as possible, the soul leaves, and the body falls into a “deep” sleep in order to recover as well and quickly as possible. When a person is sick, it is a well-known fact that the body heals and recovers the fastest when the person is asleep, because then the healing process is at its deepest level, because the body is completely relaxed. When the soul is in the astral, it has no feelings (does not feel), but is only an observer of everything that happens around it. I believe you have heard of the near death experience. It is always described by people as a positive experience without pain and suffering, and also that they returned due to the fact that it was not yet their time to leave the physical body (to die).
Without the soul, we wouldn’t exist. The soul is eternal. Do not be afraid of anything, neither the astral, nor death, because God has given us eternal life through the soul.