The Problem of Death

"Some speak of the "problem" of death.  For the Christian there should be no more a problem of death than there is a problem of faded flowers or of a clouded sky.  God has made this so clear in His word that there can be no grounds to question it.  It is only when we fail to think soberly about life that we have the feeling that it should be all sunshine.  Undoubtedly death has been for many the one way to release from burdens and pains that had become too great to be borne, as with the hopelessly incurable, and the aged.  For others it has meant escape from suffering or disappointment that would have come to them in later life.  As this world in constituted there must be shadows as well as light, night as well as day, pain as well as pleasure, a departure from life as well as an entrance into it.  That richer life, which is the soul's true destiny, can be attained only by passing through the portals of death." - Loraine Boettner, Immortality, p. 35