Crossing from Life to Death

There is a belief that crossing from life to death should be a transfiguring experience. Identify several mindsets within which this transfiguration might occur.

Consider:

Which of these mindsets do you judge to be most in line with your own beliefs? Explain how this is so.

What now is your more objective evaluation of the idea that death is or should be a transfiguring experience? Explain your thinking on this.