Just as how people feel differently about life depending on        how they live, people feel differently about death:

There were two old men sitting together in a  room. The hour was late and the night quiet. 

The Grim Reaper then emerged from the shadows. He said that their time was up, that they would all die that night and would be able to say some last things that the reaper would tell their families. 

The first man was addressed. He screamed and yelled and cried for his life. He was terrified of the reaper, he told him to crawl back into the very pit that it had spawned out of! The Grim Reaper gave its skeleton smile to the man, and in a calm voice said, "No man can escape death. All must be judged and are subject to my scythe." A flicker of the scythe and the man dissolved into shadow. 

The second man was about to be addressed, when a third man, younger and foolish walked into the room. He asked the Grim Reaper what he was doing there. The Reaper stated with caution that the man should leave. The Young man, not one to listen to the counsel of others, said that he would not leave. That he was his own person and he would do whatever he wanted to at the moment he wanted to do it. The reaper who was tired of this man toying and annoying him, scythed him down too.

The Grim Reaper, now exasperated, turned to the second man again. The second man, old and wise, held his head high and expressed to the Reaper that he had lived his whole life for this moment. That he was ready to take on the next adventure, the one of death. The Reaper put his arm over the shoulder of the man, and disappeared into the shadows of the night. Leaving the quiet and darkness of the night.

The first man represents the person who was not ready for death. He has lived his life in a poor manner and was never ready for the day of reckoning to come. 

The Third man represents the people who toy with death, who mock it and its power. These people do whatever they want and expect no consequences. Because of this, death may claim them earlier than others.

The Second man is who we should be. Living our life in mind of the moment when we will die. Knowing that we will all die, but because we do not die yet we can not leave life unfulfilled. We must walk with death willingly and at our correct time and not be taken begging for mercy.