I have come to realise that my obsession with trying to understand death is futile, what more preparing for it; as it is almost impossible to understand death intellectually for we will only get to know it as we experience it, and that's the moment of revelation of what death is; and there is nothing we can do to prepare for it as it happens; when it happens that nothing could be done in anticipation to welcome death (avoiding it is totally impossible anyway).
But what I can do is to have that fortitude to face death whenever it arises (or in general, all adversities and pain), not as to confront the object of fear, but rather to accept then to embrace and take the moments in as experiences without judgements. It is not endurance I am mentioning here, but a kind of mental strength that is transient of experiencing moments as neither good nor bad.
With that in mind, now I shall think how do I cultivate the mental strength in me? Do I need to understand in order to have it? Or simply be.