Those of us of a certain age will remember a TV show from the 70s called MASH, the story of an army hospital during the Korean war. In one scene the doctors are in the operating room and Hawkeye, the main character, starts to shout, “We can’t let the enemy win.” By the enemy he did not mean the Communists, he meant death. As a doctor, death was something to be overcome at all costs. Contrast that with the words of Jesus: unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Death as an enemy has been conquered by Jesus. We treat it as another chapter of life.