Everyone's life is different, but everyone's outcome is the same. We fear death because we do not know the state of non-existence. The moment we were brought into this world we existed, we do not know know anything beyond that. People create religions and stories of the afterlife to reject non-existence. It is a very human thing to want to live forever, to be remembered. In a way when you die, you are everything. The energy that you have is distributed into the environment. In a way when someone gains energy that you are, you become them. You become what makes them exist.