Thanks for these post, although you said death is a friend, I observe that he has acted more as an enemy than as a friend (the death of a loved one is a reason to show that death is an enemy).nevertheless majority of people who embrace death in ancient times do so because they strongly believe that they will gain that life back in the underworld and not because death is a friend or because they love death . Today some religions people have that same mindset, hence willing to die for the sake of their religion.