Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Monday, September the 4th,

2023. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO,

Dr. Jim Denison. Jimmy Buffett, a singer, songwriter, bestselling author, and entrepreneur whom the New York Times called

the Rogish Bard of Island Escapism died Friday at the age of 76. His website disclosed that he

had been battling Merkel cell skin cancer for four years. His is the most recent name on a long

list of musicians who have died in

2023. Sarah Young, author of the best-selling Jesus Calling Devotional, died on August

the 31st after suffering for years from various diseases. Comedian Joan Rivers is being remembered

today the anniversary of her death in 2014,

and historians tell us that the Western Roman Empire fell on this day in AD 476

when Romulus Augustus was deposed by Ohadus, a German barbarian who proclaimed himself

king of Italy. Let's take a moment to reflect on these stories in light of today's

Labor Day holiday. Terror management theory posits that humans are inherently aware of our mortality,

which triggers a fundamental fear of death and causes us to seek ways to transcend mortality,

often through literal or symbolic immortality. Consequently,

quote-unquote, immortality projects, such as the Egyptian pyramids, dot the annals of history.

Novelist Chuck Pollanek claimed, we all die, the goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to

create something that will.

The biblical worldview endorses such quote-unquote projects when they are completed for God's

glory and the advancement of His kingdom.

Consider Revelation 14 verse 13, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.

Blessed indeed, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors,

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