According to Zhuangzi’s philosophy, it is silly for us to fear death and love life because we do not know what is beyond death. We will perhaps awaken from a great dream and at death begin to live. “How do I know that life is not a delusion?” In regards to life and death we are like the lady Li Chi who cried when she heard that she was arranged to be married. She cried because she loved the life she knew and was afraid to lose it, as we are afraid to lose our life. But when she went to her husband she found that she enjoyed being there and regretted having wept. She could have just as likely been miserable there, and then would be justified in crying, but Zhuangzi says she did not
know what was to come and therefore should not have necessarily feared the unknown. Why do we fear death when we know nothing about it? It is not necessarily the end of us, nor is it something great that we should prematurely end our lives to attain.