Avoid all negative or evil actions right now.

If dying simple meant that we disappeared like water absorbed into dry ground or like flames being extinguished we could take death quite lightly.
What when we abandon the body and keep mind which travels in state of transition between death and rebirth; bardo?

In this we cannot use the five senses. We are pulled away from our dear friends and family like a yak or cow hair is pulled out of the butter. Still we have a luggage filled with actions with us. As mind travels through the Bardo there is no choice how to do.

Our actions will lead to their effects. Helpless like a feather in the wind we are driven by the force of our past actions.
It is crucial to understand and to gain the conviction that the laws of cause and effect govern the universe and all beings.

Milarepa explained that if he had been able to dedicate himself totally to Dharma and attain enlightenment in a single lifetime, it was simple because of the conviction he had in the laws of Karma. Every action inevitably is followed by result. The traces of our positive or harmful actions dwell in the substratum of our consciousness.

There are only two ways to erase the trace left by a harmful act; either by going through the experience of suffer that is its natural consequence or by purifying it with the appropriate antidotes before the appearance of its effects.

To be mindful and place the importance of positive actions, more then like we give importance to gold. With own words; Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.