Death is what happens to a form when the living inhabitant exist or moves on or leaves. Life can never die. Life is life. The renouncer, the actor, the being, the Christ in us, is liberated. If one's sense of the real is locked into the physical or material world, there can be no liberation in renunciation, just death.
Renunciation is the step necessary for resurrection to happen - no renunciation, no resurrection.
Holding on to that which should be let go, needs to be let go, will eventually be let go, regardless of how hard one holds on, leads only to pain. It is the reaction of an identification, often an unconscious identification, of oneself with that onto which one is holding. Letting go in these cases, letting go of what one things one is, means death. This set of factors combine to generate a force known as fear. Fear, we all know, is a very, very strong motivator.