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Can any good come from thinking about death? Our natural tendency is to answer that question no! But what if our meditation on death was informed by a theological understanding of death, a recognition of the comfort Jesus’s death affords Christians, and ethical guidance for dealing with death in these complicated days of modern medical developments? Rather than being morbidly unhelpful, authors...

boundary dividing the state of physical life from the state of death. When the heart, lungs, and circulatory system cease to distribute oxygen throughout the body, there is a change from aerobic (oxygen-fueled) action in the body to anaerobic (non-oxygen fueled) activity, which is referred to as corruption or decomposition. During decomposition, autolysis or self-digestion starts. As the temperature of the body continues to decrease, rigor mortis (stiffness of limbs) sets in. About four days later,
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