There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
And as long as you're subject to birth and death you'll never attain enlightenment.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources taking the best from every study Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.