Death

“I’m with Paul when he says, ‘To live is Christ, to die is gain.’ Obviously, death is a wicked thief. I don’t want it to happen. … This is not news to me that I had numbered days. It just became a more precise number. We all have numbered days.” - Baptist Press

“Before the emergence of the modern hospice movement, dying had become institutionalized, with most deaths occurring in sterile hospital rooms rather than in one’s own bed…. But now the hospice movement has run into serious trouble.” - Humanize

“I was struck by these lines: ‘Do not stand by my grave, and cry—I am not there, I did not die.’ But Jesus wept over death (John 11:35); so should we. While it is true that the person is not consciously there at his or her grave, it is emphatically not true that they did not die!” - Randy Alcorn

“The Christian resists a culture of death–a cheapening of human life through violence of any form–yet accepts as reality that Christ, in his life, death, and resurrection, has defeated it and offers himself as a promise of new and eternal life.” - The Dispatch

“The most interesting thing about Johnson isn’t that he previously used injections of his son’s blood in an attempt to stay young. It’s not that he has a six-hour morning routine that keeps his health from being a benefit to anyone but him…. It’s that he, without irony, believes he’s ushering in a new eschaton.” - TGC

“But the esoteric nature of the debate is no excuse for anyone who cares about human rights or life issues to skip it entirely, especially as the definition of what constitutes death is currently changing.” - RNS

“I recently encountered a poem I enjoyed and wanted to share with you…. Among his poems is this brief reflection on the death of a Christian (which, appropriately, is titled ‘A Christian’s Death’)” - Challies

“This is not morbid; it is just facing head-on what Scripture says….You are not going to live a moment shorter because you pause to think about death. You are not going to live a moment longer if you refuse to stop and think about death.” - Randy Alcorn

“In the United States, abortion accounts for roughly one-third of all annual deaths. The figure among African Americans reportedly exceeds 60% of total deaths [per Breitbart].” - C.Post

“Our modern Promethean aspirations are not merely marked by Frankenstein’s desire to play God in the creation of life. We have taken on the role of God in the bringing of death as well.” - Carl Trueman