Faith: Easter promises us that death is not extinction
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A woman I know lost her son to cancer seven years ago. Still struggling with grief, she finds one of the hardest aspects is that she can’t really talk about it. She finds it perplexing that, if she does mention the death, the most common response is an immediate change of subject without anyone even acknowledging what she has said.
Naturally, that just tends to deepen her pain and sense of disconnection. Yet the folk concerned are decent, well-meaning people. It’s not that they are callous, they simply do not know what to say, and feel it is dangerous ground on which to venture.
I think this is a symptom of modern society’s inability to deal with the one inescapable reality of human existence: death. We sanitise it, tuck it away out of sight.
The Bible says death could not hold Jesus.
Photo: Darrian Traynor
Previous generations were much more immediately and directly confronted with death, because of higher infant mortality, more people dying at home, and other factors.
In the Middle Ages, people hoped for a lingering death, so they could make their peace with God and the people in their lives, set their affairs in order and prepare for the hereafter. Today, people tend to want to die in their sleep and know nothing about it.
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