Perspectives on the passage?

Death is an adventure into the unknown. 

Death is as natural as sleep or birth, and no more to be feared. Death makes you young again. It is but the doorway that leads to a new life.

Death is never sudden. The inner or spirit is always conscious of the approach of death and is ready to depart. Though death is never sudden or a surprise to the dying, yet it is so free from sensation or feeling or jar that the departed are not conscious of the passing over.

Life blends into death, and death into life again, without your being conscious of the change. You simply become conscious that you are alive, and if you have any consciousness of your former life, it is a vague and visionary one, as something apart from yourself.

The dead do not possess any great knowledge of what is in the beyond. All things are revealed to them by a slow unfolding, an evolution.