As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.