The question used to be, "Do you fear death?" Now it seems to be "Do you think about it?"
I was talking to a couple kids on campus recently. One was in the line for the crunchy chicken wrap. Some of you know how long that line is. I was standing next to a real nice guy, and we started talking about the death of Heath Ledger, the actor from The Patriot and the upcoming film, Dark Knight. I asked him if he ever thought about what would happen if he died, where he would go. He said he didn't think about it that much. I was sort of shocked, and yet not so much. Another girl I was sharing Christ with last Christmas (she was a foreign student and had never seen a candy cane before) said that she didn't worry about it. She said “I'm not planning to die anytime soon.”
I am amazed at how we take death so casually. Or perhaps, we don't take it. I heard a man once say that there are three types of people in terms of death. There are those that fear it, those that don't fear it, and those that should fear it but don't. I think something important to keep in mind when speaking to my generation (particularly those in luxurious America) is to impress upon us that death is something very real and that when in civilization, you can close your eyes and not ask that question, but as you are put closer to death whether through age or circumstances, it becomes harder to ignore.
I was talking to a couple kids on campus recently. One was in the line for the crunchy chicken wrap. Some of you know how long that line is. I was standing next to a real nice guy, and we started talking about the death of Heath Ledger, the actor from The Patriot and the upcoming film, Dark Knight. I asked him if he ever thought about what would happen if he died, where he would go. He said he didn't think about it that much. I was sort of shocked, and yet not so much. Another girl I was sharing Christ with last Christmas (she was a foreign student and had never seen a candy cane before) said that she didn't worry about it. She said “I'm not planning to die anytime soon.”
I am amazed at how we take death so casually. Or perhaps, we don't take it. I heard a man once say that there are three types of people in terms of death. There are those that fear it, those that don't fear it, and those that should fear it but don't. I think something important to keep in mind when speaking to my generation (particularly those in luxurious America) is to impress upon us that death is something very real and that when in civilization, you can close your eyes and not ask that question, but as you are put closer to death whether through age or circumstances, it becomes harder to ignore.
