my personal opinion and reaction to death is that Christians should have not need to fear it and grieve over it since it is the doorway to heaven, and to true life with God. What Christians should fear and grieve over is an unrepentent death in a state of mortal sin.
So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Phillipians 2:12
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