I'm I'm Have you thought about how you'll face death? Are you confident where you'll live in the next world?

While death is an uncomfortable topic that many prefer to avoid, today on Truth for Life,

Alistair Begg explains why it's important to make plans now while it still makes a difference.

Now, if you'll take your Bible and turn with me again to Genesis 47 and pay particular attention

to verse 29 and the opening phrase, when the time drew near for Israel to die.

It's a striking phrase, is it not? Anyone who is reading the text carefully will with any

sensitivity be caused to wonder at such a phrase? Certainly not simply because it speaks to the

history and destiny of this man, Jacob, but because we find

ourselves mirrored in such a phrase. Because although we would rather, on many, if not most

occasions, distance ourselves from this awful truth. The fact is that for each of

us there will come a day when it will be apparent that the time has drawn near for us to die.

And whether it is happening suddenly, without any sense of premonition or warning, or whether as a result of the onset of a protracted illness, there will be those who whisper behind their hands and walk from our rooms and remark to one another, surely the time has come for him or for her to die.

Now, it is not an immediately appealing subject, death. Indeed, one could argue that we have done

our level best over the last 50 years to anesthetize all of us from the actuality of the

one event for which we need all to prepare. A bioethicist, a doctor writing concerning

this says, despite what you were told, the last taboo in polite conversation

is not religion or politics, it is death. If you hang around hospitals, you don't need

convincing of this fact. Families bravely soldier on, refusing to discuss death with a dying relative. Doctors can't

bring themselves to tell patients that the end is in sight, and they find refuge in euphemisms

and false cheer. Our society seems to share a universal belief that Newsweek will come out next week or soon after that

with a cover story, found a cure for death.

But the figures are in and won't change.

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