Christians have proved very poor at believing our own propaganda regarding death. Too often our mourning is for every part of our loved one, and has no room for the lively hope of resurrection - the promise of eternal life. We obsess with the external details of physical death and lose sight of continuity. The picture to the left is of the Sedlec Ossuary - a chapel and tomb in The Czech Republic filled and decorated entirely with human bones. Why? To bully the living into obedience to the doctrine of The Church - as if death were some horrible punishment and not the fulfillment of life's journey. Let us be done with anointed old flesh and begin celebrating new life!