I happened upon this thought after reading Interview with the Vampire, a novel by Anne Rice. In the book (if you haven't read it, please do!) a grieving plantation owner is turned into a vampire and given immortal life. Now he bears his pains and memories forever.
I realized that death in itself is a blessing. It is a painful experience losing a loved one. I do not mean to diminish that. And with the recent events at Orlando, and Syria, and really anywhere in the world, death is unwelcome, an aberration, an interruption from what makes sense.
But some people do long for death after a long, laborious life on this earth. And it is with death that we leave this body and enter Eternity.
Life is a blessing. Death can be a blessing, too. After all, the death of Jesus on the cross was the greatest blessing to mankind. That, and His Resurrection! Life!
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