There are things which you can never understand until you experience it

That is the benefit of long title as it more or less brings out the main point of what one have to say. Does fear ever occur to you when people beside you, your friends and family because of age or illness? For the juveniles it might not have been something you've been through, but for the elderlies, i've seen many of such. When you start to grow old, you slowly see your hair turns white, your skin crumpled up, your speed slow down, your abilities weren't as smooth as before, the idea of death in near might just occur to you. Death is definitely inevitable, but understanding it helps you live your life better as understand from "Tuesday with Morrie". But as death is unpredictable, it gives uncertainties, and thats the main fear, not death itself. When you see your close friends pass away because of health problems at maybe an age of 70 its naturally that you a friend of the similar age fear that you'll encounter similar problems. Because we cannot control it, we cannot predict it, it creates a kind of anxiety in us just like the fear for 2012, the only difference is the fear of the whole Earth dying and not an individual. Back to the topic, because we are not living in the circumstances, we will or will be difficult for us to understand the kind of feeling, that kind of mindset the person is having at the moment. We can learn alot, study as much as you want, know as much as possible, but somethings sometimes somewhere, we will just have to been through it to understand it. We human are strongly affected actually totally affected by what you've been through, saw and feel so because of the highly varied life each individual been through, it forms a different character, mindset of a person and this whole experince that one has ever been through will decide his decision his desire and his deed. So only going through the different parts of life and experiencing more will only then you can more accurately decide for yourself and others, it is something which you can learn nothing from the books, and i guess that's the take away of lives.