DEATH
COMES CALLING

Topics: Afterlife; Death; Doubt; Hopelessness; Meaning of Life; Priorities; Skepticism; Values

Reference: John 11:25

Samuel Johnson once said the prospect of being hanged concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully. I can testify that the prospect, extended over an hour or two, of dying in a gasoline fireball after an automobile crash does much the same. It dissolves your more commonplace troubles.

—Robert Hughes, “In Death’s Throat,” Time (October 11, 1999)