Death dreams frighten dreamers, yet interpreters across centuries agree: they are almost never literal. Death in a dream marks an ending — of a phase, a role, a belief — and endings are the soil of beginnings. Dreaming of your own death often accompanies major life transitions.
Seeing a living loved one die usually reflects fear of losing them or a changing relationship with them, not prophecy. In Anatolian folk tradition, dreaming of death is even said to lengthen life. Ask which chapter of your life is quietly closing, and greet the next one with open hands.