Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Life: Issue Two
Christians desire a "happy death," one that is neither sudden nor unforeseen. They want to face death prepared: vigilant, amends made, sins confessed, in the company of their loved ones and the saints, all interceding for them at their appointed hour. But such a death is only possible if one is responding to a call from the One who has vivified their lives all along. Absent that, one can only want to be taken unawares or put to sleep "mercifully," then annihilated with the compost. The unhappy deaths we are witnessing today represent not first a moral crisis, but a crisis of meaning.
Re-Source: Classic Texts
Articles
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Our Lives Are a Marathon of Hope by Amanda Achtman
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The Tragedy of Legal Euthanasia for a Christian by Roberta Bayer
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Death and the Church’s Funeral Liturgy by Fr. Blake Britton
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Revising the Concept of Death (Again?) by Julia Palmieri
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Suffering and the Recovery of Hope by Erin Kinsella
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Life, Death, and Immortality in the Anti-Covid Era by Edward Hadas
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Special Earth or the Faithful Departed? by Mark Milosch