throw the flowers on top of the grave after the deceased has been buried. Once carefully arranged, now those lifeless beauties are tossed haphazardly on the mound of dirt, as if our attempts to preserve life were in vain. It seems we do everything we can to cover up death—hide it from our eyes; shield our senses at all costs. Paul, however, would have us embrace death as an act of living. To take in the smell of death—Christ’s death and ours—is to declare that we are very much alive. Rather than