Look into the face of a widow or a mother who has lost her son as a result of a tragic accident. An almost unquestioned truism is that a man who loses his spouse will just 'go to pieces' and tumble into an almost bottomless pit of depression. I suspect that most New Zealanders today would claim that the sting of death is our misunderstanding or ignorance of what death is. For example, current New Age thinking would claim that we need to re-educate ourselves and others to get to the real truth about 'death'. They tell us that the 'good news' is that death is natural.
Death is as much a part of the cycle of life as birth is.
Death is normal. The rhythm of physical existence necessarily includes death. You misunderstand life itself if you accept the fallacy that death is abnormal. That sounds too bald even for New Age dreamers. Some will have your 'spirit' free-floating in the great cosmic 'out there'.