The fact that I feel a bit self-conscious posting something that includes the word “death” in the title goes a long way to prove Spurgeon’s point in the excerpt below.
The truth is that very few of us enjoy pondering the reality of our own mortality. We would much rather pass on the subject to talk about any number of other things… anything else.
On Death
“MAN IS UNWILLING to consider the subject of death. The shroud, the mattock and the grave, he labors to keep continually out of sight. He would live here always if he could; and since he cannot, he at least will put away every emblem of death as far as possible from his sight. Perhaps there is no subject so important, which is so little thought of. Our common proverb that we use is just the expression of our thoughts, “We must live.” But if we were wiser we should alter it and say, “We must die.” Necessity for life there is not; life is a prolonged miracle. Necessity for death there certainly is, it is the end of all things. Oh that the living would lay it to heart!”
C.H. Spurgeon
