Introduction
I have done regression hypnotherapy on people for over 8 years and I can tell you that almost every person I regressed had some kind of fear when they died in past lives. Even people who drowned.
When I say "almost", this is because some people died in their sleep and others wanted to die because of suffering - so they were receptive to the act of dying.
The ones with the greatest fears (generally) were those who had accumulated wealth and the suddenly realized that it was all gone.
The most interesting part of regression (for me) was the "Twilight Time" just before death when their soul is generally free and they see reality for what it really is and not the illusion we perceive reality to be (which is physicality).
In a way I was fortunate that I was mentally prepared for what happened after I died and the most important aspect of this was that I did not have any "illusions" of what to expect on the other side.
People create a fantasy of what they believe will happen and this sounds nice until you realize that once the fantasy stops, then they are "Reincarnated"
back into a human form or that of an animal and even worse - depending on their deeds.
Why Do People Fear Dying
There are many reasons why people fear dying, and I have tried to cover the main "reasons" here.
Injury ↟↟
One of the most common reasons is pain.
Think about previous lives where you lived in the bush or jungle and had to deal with predatory animals, snakes, venomous insects, diseases like typhoid, syphilis etc - bacterial infections like UTI's, "meningitis"
etc and even just getting physically injured with little or no access to any kind of aid or medicine.
People are afraid of dying by:
- psychologically: by being constantly told by others that they should be afraid of dying ***
- being attacked and / or eaten by animals
- being attacked and / or eaten by "cannibals"

- being physically injured and unable to heal
- getting sick and being unable to help get food
- common colds and deadly viral infections
- being disfigured from war or fighting
+ 
- being stoned alive or disfigured by barbaric religions including "acid attacks"
even in 2025.
- being hunted by animals or people
- etc
*** When I was young - back in the 1960's, I would often hear people say that I should not do stupid things or I would die - or even quite bluntly that dying was not a good thing to do.
Remember that in the 1960's, most adults over 20 had either been born during WWII or had lived (and often) fought through WWII so the specter of death was much more predominant that it is today.
Most people have never seen a woman stoned to death - I have and I can tell you that watching it is like having your intestines ripped out through your heart.
Dying Of Old Age ↟↟
If you have been a good person and you end up dying of Old Age - (and I cannot speak for every case) - however, there is a very HIGH probability that you will be visited by someone you have loved and who has already died.
2 examples, my grandmother would constantly have conversations with her long dead sister before cancer took her.
My neighbor (neighbour) Sally - who was married to her husband for over 70 years before he died from an accident - would start talking to her deceased husband a few days before she also passed away.
In my grandmother's case, her sister "May" appeared as a ball of light, yet she recognized her immediately.
In Sally's case, her husband "Gus" appeared to her like he was when he was around 20 and she was a bit upset that she was appearing to him as an old woman.
I told her that he would be looking at, and communicating with her soul - because this is how he could connect with her - so he would see her in her true beauty and not as a frail old lady.
Note that seeing and / or talking to dead people may happen hours, days and sometimes weeks before dying.
Many people have heard of this but are often told by medical staff that the "patient's" mind had gone and that they are mentally disabled (often the word insane or crazy is mentioned - or it used to be).
The really sad part is that these people are not crazy and if we understood that they really were seeing and talking to someone deceased, then we would have a much higher respect for the spiritual side of life and we would indeed be more spiritual people - to the greater benefit of humanity and this planet - for a start.
I remember talking to an ER doctor who told me that he had many personal stories of people who died on the operating table and yet when they were revived, they would sometimes tell him what they saw and heard - after they were medically dead.
These days you can easily see this kind of admission on youtube or is search results.
Over the years I heard many such stories about what is now called "Near Death Experiences"
or NDE's for short - but "most" were second-hand stories.
Now-a-days we have Youtube and channels like the NDE channel where people can share such stories.
CAVEAT
Regarding this Near Death Experiences "NDE Channel"
- and based on my experience from groups I joined and observed - many of these "stories" will be genuine BUT some will be posted by people who are trying to belong to a group.
I have written about "Near Death Experiences"
here and would encourage you to read what I wrote before you watch videos.
You may also like more general information about these as well:
- "Reincarnation"

- "What Is Karma"

- The "Messiah Mantra"

- You may also like the "7 Days Conundrum"

Karmic Fear
There is a Koan (story) with various names which I shall call "Hyaku-jo's Fox"
(which is one of these names) and it tells the story of a head monk who gave incorrect information to his students and was sentenced to return for 500 lifetimes as a fox.
Depending upon your "crime" or indiscretion, you may be "sentenced" to less or many many more of these subservient lifetimes as an animal or an even lower life form.
Your actions are not the only thing you are judged on.
Some other factors include:
- Ego
- Pride
- Greed
- Cruelty
- Arrogance
- Lack of humility
- Lack of learning
- Lack of compassion
- Lack of the "Levels Of Love"

- Harming others either by speech or actions
- Lack of God awareness like "Psalm 27:4"

When I say "more", it may be in the 10's or 100's of thousands times 500 if you are responsible for mass mutilations and or genocides. 
One Of My Teachers ↟↟
One of my teachers put it like this.
If you are bad you will come back being afraid of the bear.
If you are very bad, you will come back "as" the bear being afraid of humans.
If you are very very bad, you will come back as an insect and not afraid of the bear - just other insects and birds.
If you are extremely bad, you will come back as a rock and you will only be afraid of prison gangs.
When I Died ↟↟
In 2023 I died twice and for me personally, it was a beautiful experience.
The serenity was beyond description and words also cannot describe the colors or the living intelligence you encounter.
So my question to you is this:
IF you knew that you will be judged and given some kind of nasty reincarnation IF you were (are) a bad person, would you change?
Think about your future...