In an age where we are inundated with headlines of suffering, evil, fear, and death – where there is simultaneously an ease to remaining comfortable with ignorance, distance, or avoidance – the Confessions of Saint Augustine and the signposts of the Old Testament guide Christians towards a more robust understanding of the gravity of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Within modern western culture, death is often dealt with behind closed doors. The sick and elderly rarely die at home, intimately cared for by their loved ones throughout the process of dying. Instead they are shipped off, making death seem less intrusive, more remote, palatable, forgettable.