Each of the world’s most popular religions have offers different paradigm of death and dying. If the extreme off shots of these religions are excluded, the main stream teachings are all centered on the promise that the process of dying is just a final stage of one’s earthly journey and a beginning of the eternal life. Although the details differ in the detail, between main religions, two things are certain: nobody can escape the death, and what happens “next” to you depends on the deeds of your past life.
It is helpful to quote here from M. de Montaigne:

“There is no place on earth where death cannot find us – even if we constantly twist our heads about in all directions as in dubious and suspect land… If there were any ways of sheltering from death’s blows – I’m not the man to recoil from it… but it is madness to think that you can succeed…

Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come – to them, their wives, their children. Their friends – catching them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries, what fury, what despair!

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more in mind than death…
We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

Indeed, why worry? God’s love gave each of us an eternal life. Why cry and despair when death comes to free ourselves from that tired and troublesome “attire” we call “body”? That which is truly You  – Self, is out of this world, and lives forever – as all Divine Creation does.