I had just been informed that a friend had passed on. Yet I knew, regardless of our limited material perspective, that this friend would never cease to exist. His relationship to God could never be interrupted or ended. But I went beyond this recognition and affirmed that, in the truest sense, there is no death, because man's real nature is eternally spiritual.
Man, and that means me and everyone as we really are, exists in God. And because we actually dwell in God, we cannot be taken from His universe through any so-called law of accident, age, or disease. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy declares, "Death is but another phase of the dream that existence can be material."Science and Health, p. 427.
Although we are confronted almost daily with accounts of accident, disease, and death through the media and through contact with our fellowman, we needn't be overpowered by such reports, nor should we simply "turn them off" or "tune them out." As Christians—Christian Scientists—we care about others, we feel deep compassion for them and offer loving assistance where we can, but we don't sympathize with the error. We deny it any reality, any place, any nature or duration; and we most certainly do not attach it to anyone. Nor should we put ourselves into someone else's dream, so to speak, through sympathy or grief based on belief in death.
