“It was an upsetting thought. I gave myself a lecture: I’ve been a Christian for almost 50 years, and I certainly should be able to do better than that. It’s not that I have any doubts about Paradise or the Resurrection. No, it was just that first moment of death, that first step into darkness. Suddenly, it was overwhelmingly scary.”
(Federica Mathewes-Green in her blog writing on the fear of death)