So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart. (Ps. 90:12) Today, this attitude is remote, at least in the West. Thoughts and expectations of death are pushed away and often suppressed, even though its inevitability for all is known full well. As Moltmann observes, “To push away every thought of death and to live as if we had an infinite amount of time ahead of us makes us superficial and indifferent … to live an illusion.”1 (1) Today, even to grieve for the death of relatives and friends