Should Christians be afraid of dying?

Death comes to us all, but it doesn’t stop us worrying about it. When Jemimah Wright’s father died, she grew closer to understanding how real heaven is.

A few years ago I interviewed a girl who died in a bomb, met Jesus face to face*, and came back to life. What struck me was her joy, despite the hardships she was still living in on earth. She told me, ‘Jemimah, joy is the currency of heaven.’ The way she talked about meeting Jesus, and being overwhelmed by his love and power was extraordinary.

I watched death up close when my dad died in November 2020. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer nearly fifteen years previously, and even though it was aggressive and the prognosis was bad, he had lived in relative health until early 2019 when a side-effect of an operation meant the cancer left the prostate and spread around his body.