Are we too afraid of death? Here’s what Christians should remember

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Author of Living to Finish Well Marjie Sutton asks if we can face a fear of death by better understanding the glory of eternal life.

“Of course, we all think we’re not really going to die,” said two of my friends, quite independently and within an hour of each other. How strange and somehow contradictory we humans are; the one thing we can be sure of is the very thing we try to pretend doesn’t exist!

Perhaps it’s because death appears to be all about loss. Leaving behind a life we’ve loved; family, career, home, pastimes… the list goes on. We can’t bear to think about leaving it all, so we block it from our minds, preferring to “carry on regardless”, pretending either that it’s not real, or comforting ourselves that we have plenty of time before we face it.

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