"I do not fear death, for I have already died once. To live is Christ, to die is gain.” St. Edmund Campion (1540-1581)

Death is a process in the life-death-life cycle of every human being. We are given life in the womb of our mother. Then we have to die to that life, in order to live our own human life. When we were baptized, we died to a life of alienation from God and began a new life of relationship with God. Throughout our human existence in a real but unperceived way old cells are dying and new cells are coming to life. Each death brings new life. So with all this life-death-life process, why does our physical death make us fearful? If we are living in Christ now, death will be another instant in a cycle of life. This time eternal life.  The only time we should fear death is when we are living in sin. For if we die alienated from God, then that death will be an eternal death.