Describe Bacon's vision about death in his essay "Of Death."

In this essay, Bacon attempts to take some of the fear out of death by situating it in a larger context. It is not the worst thing in the world, he says; it is just another one of life's processes. He says it is unfortunate that people develop an irrational fear of it. He notes that, despite exaggerated reports that people die in horrible pain and with convulsions, many also die with little bother. People even welcome death as a release from grief or from their world-weariness:

A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over.

He also argues that death allows people to love people unconditionally in memory because we no longer envy them.
While Bacon takes a clear-eyed, sensible, and rational view of death (illustrating his role as one of the fathers of the Enlightenment), we also notice that he is still firmly influenced by Renaissance ideas: he relies heavily on the authority of classical authors of antiquity (on tradition) to buttress his claims about death. He also assumes that his audience is fluent in Latin—the international language among the educated classes in his time—which is why there are so many Latin quotes in the essay. This would seem to fly in the face of the "plain" language for which he is famous, but it would have seemed perfectly ordinary to use Latin during this period.

In Francis Bacon's essay "Of Death", he rejects the framework that death is an event to be feared and despised and further rejects that death is the ultimate perversion and enemy of life. Rather, Bacon argues that death is as natural as birth and is an integral part of the delicate cycle of nature. Death, according to Bacon, is something to ponder and reflect upon but not to be feared—as is often the case and how it is often depicted in literature and art. Bacon sees fear of death as a weakness and as the failing of a mind that is unwilling to understand how death is a part of life. Bacon argues that death should not be seen as the ultimate form of torture but rather as a natural, and often not uncomfortable, closing to a story, one in which the person who dies is often revered and cherished after passing.

Bacon's view on death is well-summarized by his opening comparison to children's fear of the dark: while some amount of fear makes sense, it should be overcome. However, he argues that, rather than demystifying the objects of our fear, all too often humans magnify these fears—making them more monstrous and ghastly than they are in reality.
Just as ghost stories and monster stories make the dark more scary, Bacon discusses the way in which writings about death—often pushed by religious figures—describe it as far more gruesome and painful than it is. He frames it simply as a natural process and as the completion and end of a life. Showing an impressive level of detachment, Bacon suggests that, if we do not invest ourselves in the unrealistic idea that we could live forever, there's no reason to be distraught by the idea that at some point our life will end. Bacon points out that one can leave behind a legacy and that people are generally remembered better after they have died, which are two comforting thoughts.

In his essay "Of Death," Francis Bacon claims that the fear of death is both childish and irrational. It is perfectly right and proper to contemplate death from a religious standpoint, as its being the wages of sin, for example, but to fear death is a sign of weakness. All too often, men—especially religious men such as monks—mistake the horrible accompaniments of death for death itself. Although death is often attended by such unpleasant trappings as facial disfigurement, groans, and convulsions, in itself it is nothing and can just as easily happen without the presence of these and other mortal horrors.
Bacon holds death to be as natural as life itself. Indeed, he believes that the end of life is one of the true benefits of nature. Throughout this essay, we see Bacon the empiricist philosopher, Bacon the man of science, going out of his way to demystify death, to make it seem perfectly natural and therefore absolutely nothing to be afraid of. But we also see Bacon the courtier and politician, Bacon the man of the world, for whom reputation is all-important; a man who thinks that death performs a valuable service to humankind by ensuring that those who are envied in this life shall be loved when they are gone.