All cultures have shown interest in life after death. Egyptians designed pyramids for their dead. Chinese built huge emperor tombs. Vikings dressed fallen
warriors and released them to the wind in burning ships. Crusaders in the Middle Ages believed they gained a more favorable afterlife if they died in battle, as did the Japanese kamikazes later. American Indians buried weapons and tools with their dead,
for use in the Happy Hunting Ground.

Men also feared death. King Louis XV forbade servants to mention death in his presence. A Chinese superstition held that mentioning death invites it. People now tend to ignore death or try to postpone it as long as possible. Woody Allen quipped: “It’s not that I am afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

Yet nothing in life is as certain. George Bernard Shaw observed that “the statistics about death are very impressive—one out of one dies.” The Bible says, “It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

The undertaker who signed his correspondence “Eventually yours” was right.

What does the Bible say about man’s journey to eternity?