Ecclesiastes 7:1 is a fascinating verse that probably the vast majority of readers let slip under their radar – “the day of death [is] better than the day of birth.” What does this mean? How can death . . . which nobody celebrates . . . be “better” than a birth which everyone celebrates? In a nutshell, for the Christian exiting this fallen world is better than entering it. While the historic church understood this, it was truth that was relegated to the closet in the mid-20th century because of exponential medical advancement. When the church lost the art of dying well, its view of death for the Christian dramatically altered.