The first step to having a relationship with God is to believe that God exists and He has your best interests in mind. Before we get to good news, we must face the music - so to speak. Nature of life. We don't want to face up to the reality of death. We deny death.
Death spares no one.
Someday, when we or someone we love is dying, this principle will seem neither distant or funny. It comes to all. I miss him so much, I'd I've half of this to get him back. Because the way you view death shapes the way you live. Some like Ostrich, chicken, turkey, lamb.