The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.