Is it always wrong to rejoice at someone's death?

[awfulthings9]

I can have it both ways. Death is contrary to God’s plan *and *death in Christ is good.CCC 1008

Death is a consequence of sin. the Church’s Magisterium, as authentic interpreter of the affirmations of Scripture and Tradition, teaches that death entered the world on account of man’s sin.569 Even though man’s nature is mortal God had destined him not to die. Death was therefore contrary to the plans of God the Creator and entered the world as a consequence of sin.570 “Bodily death, from which man would have been immune had he not sinned” is thus “the last enemy” of man left to be conquered.571This next quote shows that there is more than one kind of death:CCC 1010 Because of Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."574 "The saying is sure: if we have died with him, we will also live with him.575 What is essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian has already “died with Christ” sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ’s grace, physical death completes this “dying with Christ” and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act… But that’s not the kind of death celebration they were planning to celebrate was it?

Yes, it was. Thank you for realizing the difference. As pointed out in your second quote, bodily death *has already *been conquered. Therefore, we no longer have to dread it as an enemy of God, so we can rejoice in it as the completion of dying with Christ.

 

[mrsriccardo]

…it’s sad when someone like that dies in one way, we can be reasonably sure they didn’t know the Lord and can summize what their end will be.

Rejoice may not be the word. Yes, people who are tortured by others in a number of ways may have life easier when the person isn’t around. It should not end there though, God must be in the scenario or bitterness will follow and not healing or understanding.

Blessings friend,