‘Death is certain. What is uncertain is when.

But just like what the sonnet says, death must not be
proud, and we should not fear it.

From my perspective, death has a good meaning; it marks the end of one life and the beginning
of the next life. In Philippians 1:21-24, Paul wrote that to live is Christ and to die is gain. Paul
considered death to be his friend and not his enemy. Which is acceptable for me. Therefore,
whether he lived or died would have been fine with him. What he tried to emphasize was that if
God called him to heaven that would be fine with him because he knew he would be with the
Lord.

Paul is also the writer of 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 who says that when Christians die, they go
immediately to be with God. He said, "To be absent from the body is to be present with the
Lord." A Christian's death frees him from his earthly labors, trials, and struggles. The gain is
freedom from burdens and problems here on earth. I believe that death ushers a person into the
presence of God where he will hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter the joy of your
Master.” It is stated in Isaiah 7:1 that when a person dies, he is “taken away from evil,” and
enters “into peace.”

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening of someone. Death is not to be feared
because Jesus was the first fruit of our own death and resurrection of the body. In 1 Corinthians
15:50-55, Paul explains that we cannot go to heaven without dying because flesh and blood
cannot enter.