Well, I can tell you even with beliefs that consciousness (or at least awareness) persists as pure awareness without form can still leave the body with deep, existential dread.
With the bees, it’s not necessarily a coping, but also recognizing how life moves beyond our own: https://youtu.be/OGXbOiiaI24
In the song, the boy learns from his mother that his father died in the war. She tells him to go tell the bees.
Later, he met someone and fell in love. They got married, and he went to tell the bees.
Then they have a child together, and when his child was born, he went to tell the bees.
With the bees, it’s not necessarily a coping, but also recognizing how life moves beyond our own: https://youtu.be/OGXbOiiaI24
In the song, the boy learns from his mother that his father died in the war. She tells him to go tell the bees.
Later, he met someone and fell in love. They got married, and he went to tell the bees.
Then they have a child together, and when his child was born, he went to tell the bees.
(The front man for that band passed a few years ago: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/tributes... )