Have you asked this very simple question: What does death teach us while we are alive?
It teaches us that life is good only until death takes over so death teaches us to treasure life because death comes "life a theft in the night" - you are the last one to know death has visited you or me.
It teaches us that death finds meaning only in the realm of faith. If you are not a believer then your philosophy is: "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you will die" but if you are a believer then your philosophy is: " Like Christ one has to die but like Christ you will rise again in God's own time."
It teaches us what truly matters in life: to do more, give more in order to be more as the great philosophers would say in our behalf but in death: to be in the mercy of God, the Judge.
On the occasion of November 1, All Saints' Day and November 2, All Souls' Day - we are answering the question that death is as important as life, the two days are symbolic of the respect we accord to our beloved dead who are in faith, alive in God's Kingdom.
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