Why do Agnostics suffer terminal distress?

The Oxford Palliative Care handbook says that Atheists and Believers tend to have more peaceful deaths. This is weird, I thought Atheists would have less hope than Agnostics????

Because Atheists and Believers both have accepted what is going to happen to them after death (in their minds). But Agnostics dont know what to think.

I don't know if that's necessarily true. I mean, how would you measure whether Atheists and Believers have more "peaceful" deaths than Agnostics?

But if it is true, I'm not sure. Maybe it's because Atheists and Believers are at peace with the fact that they "know" what's up. Agnostics refuse to know, so they're about to go into the unknown. If that makes sense?

agnostic is more on neutral boundaries in terms of control that can be painful in societal terms.

It's a psychological thing I guess. Think in terms of sacrifice if that makes any sense.

Your either hot your cold your not neutral. Bombs burn out faster than a knife piercing your physical being.

Assume that your body is neutral because it is physical. Therefore the amount of energy it takes to kill you depends on your energy level. Confronting pain is only a matter of how much energy you have to 'feel' the pain in the first place.

With magnets this is shown to be true. The essence of their feeling is by definition a magnetism they can repel each other in a 'negative sense' in a general sense when they stick to a refrigerator or metal piece it is 'good' in terms of useage.

If you are evil you probably suffer far less than a person who is truly evil - contradictory yes but it is physically possible in our realm - sorry to say. Same if you are 'good' you have far less chance of experiencing the pain some one experiences if they fall in between the two realms of Good and Evil.

Again this is my belief doesn't make it true or fake; as are most facts.

It is probably to do with the human fear of the unknown, an agnostic does not feel they know what is beyond the visible world thus they are going into complete unknowns.

An atheist or a true believer both in themselves know what will happen (they could be wrong) but they are fully convinced they know what exists beyond the physical, in the case of a believer that will be something like a heaven or whatever, the atheist is totally convinced there is nothing beyond the physical life and thus in themselves knows that it is simply the end (the opposite of birth the end of conscious thought basically) and thus neither has anything to fear.

Think however what the agnostic is feeling, they have not followed the path of a believing person but accept as a possibility that higher powers heaven/hell could exist so will be questioning if they made the right decision most likely, on the other hand they also accept the possibility this may simply be the end but have not resigned themselves to that fact thus the idea of simply ceasing to exist would in itself probably be frightening if you have not accepted that is what will happen.