2 AFTER DEATH ‘I have no fear of death.’ sometimes these words are spoken with quiet faith, at other times with a bravado that seeks to mask anxiety or anger in the face of the defeat of life and at the pain that it brings to all who come under its shadow. Death is the final proof that self-interest and self-centeredness cannot triumph because they cannot endure. There is always a further dimension. It is underlined by the author of the letter to the Hebrews, although his words are etched already