Unintended physical death is not the greatest of evils, since we will all ultimately die.
She starts from the premise that our greatest fear is annihilation, not physical death, necessarily, but annihilation as a person.
Are we, in fact, watching the brief period of consciousness that we're told (in the movie) lingers after physical death?
The return of all creatures to God begins with release from sin, physical death, and entry into the life hereafter.
I did not know then that a mental condition of full consciousness is more dangerous in slavery than hunger and physical death.
If the benediction is accompanied by a dejected and pained facial expression, and one deals with someone who is gravely ill, physical death will be understood.
Buddhists do not see physical death as the seismic event that many others do, so there can be reincarnations within the frame of a single human life.
And, ultimately, she manipulates her husband into a state of madness, incarceration in an asylum, and spiritual and emotional, if not physical, death.
Finally, there are the actual rituals of physical death itself, a rite of passage and transition into a spiritual or immortal existence.
"Good point!" barks their boss (whose name I like to imagine is CJ) from the jar in which his brain and voice box have been accommodated since his physical death in 1993.
They believed that on receiving the divine call, they would die an actual physical death - often seeming to have ceased breathing altogether - from which they would then awake, immortal.
