Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Use your own language.
Human beings are afraid of death just as children feel afraid of darkness. The fear of darkness of kids increased by the stories of the heard ghosts and thieves. In the same way, the fear of human being is increased by the stories which they heard about the agony of dying man. If a human being regards death as a kind of punishment for his sins he has committed and if he looks upon death as a means of making an entry into another world, he is certainly taking a religious and sacred view of death. But if a human being looks upon death as a law of nature and then feels afraid of it, his attitude is of cowardice. However, even in religious meditations about death there is sometimes a mixture of folly and superstition. Monks have written books in which they have described the painful experiences which they underwent by inflicting physical tortures upon themselves as a form of self-purification. Thus, one may think that the pains of death must be indescribably agonizing. Such books and such thoughts increase a man's fear of death.
Seneca, the Roman Philosopher is of the view that the circumstances and ceremonies of death frighten people more than death itself would do. A dyeing man is heard uttering groans; his body is seen undergoing convulsions; his face appears to be absolutely bloodless and pale; at his death his friends begin to weep, and his relations put on mourning clothes; various rituals are performed. All such facts make death appear more horrible than it would be otherwise.

1. What is the difference between human beings' fear of death and children's fear of darkness?
The difference between human beings’ fear of death and children’s fear of darkness is that children’s fear of darkness is based on the stories of ghosts and thieves, while human beings’ fear of death is based on the stories of the agony of the dying man.

2. What is a religious and sacred view of death?
Regarding death as a kind of punishment for one’s committed sin and seeing death as beginning of new life and not as an end, are religious and sacred view of death.

3. What are the painful experiences described by the Monks in their books?
Monks, in their books, have written about the painful experience of physical torture which they inflected upon themselves. The purpose of this torture is to purify oneself. The experience of unbearable pain of squeezing and pressing increases Man’s fear of death.

4. What are the views of Seneca about death?
Seneca, a Roman Philosopher, believed that the circumstances and ceremonies of death frighten people more than death itself would do.

5. What are the facts that make death appear more horrible than it would be otherwise?
The groaning of dying man, the physical convulsions of his body, and physical changes on his face as well as the rituals, and crying and mourning by his loved ones are the facts that make death appear more horrible than it would be otherwise.