Facing the Inevitable

Die early or grow old; there is no other alternative. And yet, as Goethe said, "Age takes hold of us by surprise."

Death Is Not the Enemy

Let me underscore ... an idea that human minds grasp while human hearts resist: "Death is not the enemy." Just think: if people didn't move ...

Fatal Disease

As when medical men examine an illness, and ascertain that it is fatal, they make this pronouncement, "He will die, he will not get over this," ...

Grave Talk: No Glib Comments

When people started fearing death in earnest, they stopped talking about it.

Heedless Knowledge

Man always knows his life will shortly cease,

Yet madly lives as if he knew it not.

Death Makes Things Matter More

In the movie Casualties of War, Michael J. Fox plays Private Erikson, a soldier in Vietnam who is part of a squad that abducts and rapes a young Vietnamese ...

Coming or Going?

A little boy was sitting in a Sunday school class, listening to his teacher describe how in the beginning of creation, God made mankind from the dust ...

Life Through Death

The cross is rough and it is deadly, but it is effective.

Frozen in Greed

Clovis Chappell wrote in his book of sermons Feminine Faces:

"When Pompeii was being excavated, there was found a body that had been embalmed by the ...

Courage in the Face of Death

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?