For those bereaved, and for each of us as we ponder our own eventual ping, the authors offer understanding, comfort, and peace. Here is calm reurance embodied in dozens of quotations from people who, trusting in God, see death as a friend. Here are positive expressions from prophets ancient and modern. For faith teaches us that death, like every other part of God's plan, will be seen as kind and right when viewed, as we will one day view it, from the eternal perspective.