What is dread, but fear? What is fear, but a perception? Fear is a very human characteristic. One who knows themself as spirit first and foremost knows peace—knows that there truly is no death. It is your attachments that hold you in fear and fill you with dread. If you had no attachments, there would be nothing to lose. Without loss there is nothing to fear, nothing to dread.
Life is eternal. You are an expression of Life. You may temporarily be out of sight of those you love, but never do you lose them or they you. Fear not. Be not filled with dread. Take a break from being human regularly and fill yourself with the certainty that God IS, and you are That. That is all you need to know.