Madonna reveals why she’s “not afraid of death” in emotional note

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Madonna has shared an emotional letter on social media, explaining why she is “not afraid of death”.The pop icon shared the post on her Instagram account last night (February 27), reflecting on the death of her mother when she was a child and explaining how the loss led to her having an altered perception of death.She made the post via her Stories, sharing a letter she had written back in November.“When I was a child my mother died.

Seeing her beautiful face in the open casket and kissing her red lips to say goodbye, left a haunting memory. A deep longing.

A terrible fear of abandonment,” she began.“I would follow my father everywhere reminding him that if he ever died I wanted to be buried with him.

I became fascinated with cemeteries,” she added. “I was not afraid of death because I knew this was the only way I could be with my mother again.“As life went on I lost many people that I loved dearly, and came to look at death as a kind of doorway to eternal life.