Death, be not proud

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;"

Question 2

Why should death not be proud? List the speaker's major reasons.

The speaker is talking to death and telling death that it is not powerful. Death cannot control his life or be a  constant fear in his life. Death does not last because there is more to life after death. There is a Heaven or some sort of afterlife that conquers death. Death is not mighty and powerful but weak. Fate is in control, not death. The speaker tells death to stop "flexing" because it cannot determine death when fate is in the picture. There is no need to be afraid of death when death is like sleep. Sleep is pleasurable. When there is a life after death, death cannot be the end of everything. The speaker is not afraid.