“Daddy? What does ‘impudent’ mean?” Bewildered, frightened, I look to Larry. He answers matter-of-factly, while tears stream from his eyes, “Impudent. It means bold. Shamelessly bold.” “Then put me in an impudent position.”5 Christians, it seems to me, spend a whole life preparing themselves to take an impudent position over against the powers of death. Second, and more to the point here, the implication in Kübler-Ross’s work that knowledge of impending death somehow drives people rapidly up the