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# Death comes to all Men
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/death-comes-to-all-men/
- Published: 2005-06-14T19:31:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T21:39:47.000Z
- Description: Death comes to all Men
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson, Devotional

You know you've been blogging for a while when blogging becomes an important outlet for the deeper thoughts of your normal life.

Or in this case, normal death.

Today, my grandfather passed away.

As I reflected on his death, I was reminded of [this post](http://mere-orthodoxy.blogspot.com/2005/01/what-is-to-be-done-with-this-tragedy.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) by Keith, and even more by [this comment ](http://mere-orthodoxy.blogspot.com/2005/01/what-is-to-be-done-with-this-tragedy.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com#c110522953571289757)by Mere-O friend Lindsay:

> One of the most satisfying elements of Christianity, for me, is its  
> assessment of death as an unnatural occurence. We react so strongly against it  
> precisely because it's an intruder, robbing us of loved ones that may have grown  
> old in body but whose spirits have not been exhausted.

Unlike death on a national or international level, this is my first experience of death on a personal level. My grandfather was a caring, yet often stubborn old man. He was the only member of my father's side of the family that I ever knew, and I will miss him.

The grieving process is difficult and painful, but it must be seized. I have never found the Lord more near as when I have contemplated my mortality. Now, as I contemplate mortality again, I am comforted by the fact that we serve a Lord who understands all aspects of the human experience, including death, and who provides us with hope for a new life. Death comes to all men, indeed, but life only to those who will be in Christ.

'Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. '  
'Give to them eternal peace, Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them.'