What do we say to those who find comfort in death? Chiefly, that they do not death if they think this way. It is true that for the believer, who has hope beyond the grave, there is a wholesome desire to be with Christ. But for those who simply wish to be gone from this world and taken to another world, without knowing what that world is, there is a foolhardy abandonment to the unknown. Scripture tells us enough about death for no one to be attracted to it. Only by ignoring everything that God says can that be done. Death without salvation is the closing of the door of God’s mercy. It is the immediate catching up of our sins with us, so that we face the judgment of God for all we have done. Death for the lost is not simply death; it is also hell. We trust that all who die in infancy are with the Lord and that his atonement covered their case, but death for those who do not know God cannot be looked upon as preferable to life.