We discard our old clothes and wear new ones, in the same way we keep on repudiating our old body and adopt new ones. The change of clothes does not affect the body in any way, similarly a change in the body does not affect the soul(Atma). When someone dies it does not mean that he/she perishes, in fact the (soul) always remains alive.
Let us not be scared of death because it is meaningless to cry for the physical body which is made up of perishable material. Even though the dead bodies can be preserved, still we must understand that our true relation is with our soul and not our body, as the soul remains lively even after death. Therefore, we should never weep and wail vainly for the transient body. Death is nothing but a link between two lives. Death transports various souls from one birth to another. If death takes away our beloved ones, we should not consider them as being snatched away from us. Rather, we should contemplate that they have only become invisible and their souls are still alive. Neither should we consider others as dead nor should we be scared of our own death, because death is only an intermission and not the end.