diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
index 7d3d267123da95..2cd13a2891068c 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
@@ -46,24 +46,6 @@ setupTraceCategoryState();
 
 setupProcessObject();
 
-// TODO(joyeecheung): this does not have to done so early, any fatal errors
-// thrown before user code execution should simply crash the process
-// and we do not care about any clean up at that point. We don't care
-// about emitting any events if the process crash upon bootstrap either.
-{
-  const {
-    fatalException,
-    setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback,
-    hasUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback
-  } = NativeModule.require('internal/process/execution');
-
-  process._fatalException = fatalException;
-  process.setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback =
-    setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback;
-  process.hasUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback =
-    hasUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback;
-}
-
 setupGlobalProxy();
 setupBuffer();
 
@@ -265,6 +247,20 @@ Object.defineProperty(process, 'features', {
   }
 });
 
+{
+  const {
+    fatalException,
+    setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback,
+    hasUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback
+  } = NativeModule.require('internal/process/execution');
+
+  process._fatalException = fatalException;
+  process.setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback =
+    setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback;
+  process.hasUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback =
+    hasUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback;
+}
+
 // User-facing NODE_V8_COVERAGE environment variable that writes
 // ScriptCoverage to a specified file.
 if (process.env.NODE_V8_COVERAGE) {