This research has three objectives: 1) to study the Maranasati in Theravada Buddhism, 2) to study the Theravada Buddhist meditation, and 3) to study the Maranasati for the development of life according to the contemplation on death in Buddhism and to analyze facing the peaceful death according to the contemplation on death in Theravada Buddhism. This was a qualitative research to collect all data from academic paper, books and related researches.  

The result of this study was found that death was the end of five aggregates, or the end of a body and mind. There were two types of death: Kālamarana and Akālamarana. Death will come to oneself and consider the cause of death. It's a trick to calm your mind, to concentrate, to see the truth, to be sad, to be bored in the body, to smell bad. This is the reason why the mind relaxes from lack of attachment in the body.The disease can be cured

The consideration of dearth was a way to learn the reality of life in five aspects: oldness, pain, death, separation, and action. When the action had the authority over the life of human beings and animals, they could not be free from those aspects. To practice the contemplation on death caused the mental development without mindfulness while a person was dying. On the contrary, the common people were actually different from the self-control while they were dying. After losing the self-control, they died without mindfulness in the last breath or the state of depressed mind, hopeless, unhappy and anxious. The ended mind without mindfulness did not assure a person that he went to the happy existence. To face the death according to the principle of contemplation on death was a way to prepare mind before its appearance. It was a way to be conscious of death coming to oneself and the other people. It was a factor to instruct mind free from delusion, carelessness in making merit, to make mind stable in moral action, and to live with mindfulness and wisdom. Here, mind was powerful to take out all anxiety and fear.  It was free from defilement, pure from all enemies, able to cease all defilement, full of mindfulness and consciousness, courageous to face the death, and finally, able to make a person full of happiness in the daily life. 

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