Excellent analogy Elio. However, if you believe in possibility of existence beyond birth and death — then you gradually learn to stop giving unnecessary importance to fear of death “mother of all fears”. Then death is nothing but a portal through which you get an opportunity to come back to life and do what you were supposed to do. And in the process outgrowing your survival attitude — a prerequisite to thrive beyond your perceived limitations. I guess the only glitch here is that we don’t remember anything about our past journey — hence more susceptible to repeat many of our earlier mistakes.