World Buddhist Conference 2012.
One of them was Venerable Thubten Chokyi, who is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition and a resident teacher at Vajrayana Institute. She is also the Executive Director & Education of Liberation Prison Project which offers spiritual advice and teachings, as well as books and materials to people in prison interested in exploring, studying, and practicing Buddhist.
In the conference, she talked about that there's no need to be fear of dying because it is an inevitably part of life. As a Buddhist, we must always contemplate that death is certain, the time of death is uncertain and that the only thing that can help at the time of death is the Dharma Whatever time left before the death should be put to good use ie to live with compassion, work with compassion, die with compassion and enjoy with compassion. When problem comes, experience them with compassion (a quote from Lama Zopa Rinpoche). She used as a case study of a student from the Liberation Prison Project by the name of John (which is not his real name). He was sentenced to die and a year before he died, he took refuge in the Buddha