In his book, Remember Death, Matthew McCullough points out that our world is increasingly sanitising death by mentioning it in hushed words and seeing death as having no part of this earthly existence. He challenges his readers to ask:
“Are you immortal, irreplaceable, and will your memory last for time immemorial?”
Ignorant of death
I read this book as my mother lay on her deathbed after being diagnosed with multiple brain tumours. She had two weeks in which God spared her of pain from the disease and she