Washington, Feb. 28 -- Singer-songwriter Madonna reshared a November 2024 note remembering her late mother, Madonna Louise Ciccone, who died at age 30 in 1964 following a breast cancer diagnosis.

She wrote about why she is not afraid of death.

"When I was a child my mother died," wrote Madonna. "Seeing her beautiful face in the open casket and kissing her red lips to say goodbye, left a haunting memory. A deep longing. A terrible fear of abandonment. I would follow my father everywhere reminding him that if he ever died I wanted to be buried with him," reported People.

"I became fascinated with cemeteries. I was not afraid of death because I knew this was the only way I could be with my mother again," she continued. "As life went on I ...