Freedom from Fear of Death and the Future State

What is your attitude toward death? What should be the Christian's attitude toward death? Is your attitude that of fear, or of hope? The way you answer will reflect how much your thinking is affected by the great Reformation. Fear or Hope! Concerning death the apostle Paul writes in I Thessalonians 4:13ff., "But I would not have you be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope." The nature of death and the future state is such...