When his time of death is nearing, even a ripe old man looks for help to lengthen his life and yearns to be taken to a physician. The reality that one has to face death someday does not make him accept its death calmly. But people do all they can to prevent death and they are ready to spend millions just to postpone death even by some days. Indeed death is a bitter event. People avoid referring to death directly and say that one has passed away or reached the Lord's feet, etc.
Death is indeed horrible.
Even an atheist shivers when the time of his death nears. A murderer who has killed many people is disturbed to face death. However strong a person may be, when he falls sick and his health deteriorates, the fear of death grips him. Even a greedy man who spent all his years in gathering wealth without ever giving a thought about his death, is agitated to face death. If there is something disliked by the entire mankind, it is death.