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“How can you enjoy anything about life if you know that, in the end, the more you love something the more it will hurt when you lose it? That joy comes only if Jesus can deliver on his promise of eternal life—not an angelic, bodiless realm among the clouds, but a new world in which the things we love don’t pass away.“

“If the ICU represents our all-out attempt to beat back death, it is also in a sense a monument to death’s power. Here modern medicine is to death what a comb-over is to a balding scalp. We may shield the reality for a time. But at some point the comb-over is no more than a monument to the power of baldness. The harder we try, the more obvious our weakness and the more obvious death’s power.”