Our desperate struggle for an immortality already assured

From the Egyptians who buried treasures and servants with their pharaohs, to Ponce de Leon’s quest for a fountain of youth, to those who freeze bodies and tout organ donations – man is obsessed with the prolonging of life, the restoring of youth, the desperate grasping so somehow hold onto mortality. How pitiful this ignoring of the great gift given to all by the Christ: “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”1 Cor 15:22. How many trillions could be saved for use to benefit the living, and how much anguish and fear and grief are washed away by simple faith in the promise of the resurrection. Yes, you will live again, your body in its prime will be restored never to age, wear out or die again. “The soul shall be restored to the body, and the body to the soul; yea, and every limb and joint shall be restored to its body; yea, even a hair of the head shall not be lost; but all things shall be restored to their proper and perfect frame.” –Alms 40:23, Book of Mormon.