Buddhism holds that life and death are interrelated. Death is the logical result of life and everybody dies to be reborn again.
Buddhists believe that the meaning of life is to find the essence of it, to understand the true meaning of all things.
Death should not be feared because, without death, there would be no life. Death is like the prelude to life. According to Buddhism, nothing appears from nothing. In other words, life is the result of death. Buddhism is not merely the religion; it is the philosophy of life. Every Buddhist strives to find the answer to the question about the cause of his life.
Finding the Way, or the Path is the ultimate goal that is hardly achievable by anybody. To be able to enter the state of nirvana, the person has to get rid of all feelings, of all emotions, and of all thoughts. It is easy to understand how emotions remove people from understanding the world: people label everything around them; they give names to the objects and provide characteristics that evolved historically and culturally. People do not have to think on their own about things because everything is already defined as good or bad. Buddhism holds that if the person manages to restrain from accepted stereotypes, he will see the reality, the true essence of everything.
Emptiness, according to Buddhism, is nothing and everything at the same time. It is similar to death and life: life appears from death and death comes as the result of birth. Everything goes in circles while there is emptiness between the two. The death of the physical body is not regarded with fear in Buddhism because it holds that death will lead to a new life.