Why are we afraid of death?

Now, if a baby not yet born, still tucked under his mothers heart, could think, he might say to himself: " This is a wonderful place. It's warm. I'm fed. I'm taken care of. I'm secure. This is a great world where I am now. I like it here." And then someone might say to him:  "But you're not going to stay here. you have to move on: Your going to die out of this place.  You're going to another world.   " The baby would look upon the process of birth as if it were death since it would be the end of the pleasant state he was in. But look what happens to him! He is cradled in loving arms. Soft hands hold him gently. A kind face looks down at him and he loves that face. Everybody that comes near loves him. He's the king of the world he surveys and he comes to love that world, too. It's even better than the one in which he had been before.

Finally, he gets to be an old man and he is told: "You have to die to this world." He protests: " I don't want to die. I love this world. I like the feel of the sun on my face and the cool rain. I love the faces of my wife and children. I've lived here a long time and I love this place. I dont want to die." But, he does die to this world and then he is born into the next. And look what happens! He awakens to find himself young again. And once again, there are loving faces to greet him and loving hands to touch him.  And even more beautiful, sunlight will be there to surrond him, and  sweeter music that he's ever heard in his life before will sound in his ears. And all tears will be wiped from hie eyes and he will say: "Why was I so afraid of this thing called death, when, as I now know it is really life instead.

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This was a segment was taken from a bible school leasons. It is from a funeral sermon by Norman vincent Peale.

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