to think about you know, when you die?

Especially when we're 20 and 30 and

40, 50, 60, we, most of the time, we don't like to

think about that. We just know it's something that's out there.

But I,

I've been around a lot of death.

I've been in lines at airports in which the person

in front of me is dropped and I've given him

mouth-to-mouth to resuscitate him. I've gotten off buses and

there've been cars that have smashed in to everybody on the bus with bodies

everywhere. I've been on subways

that I'm walking up the stairs and people drop in front of me and I'm

trying to bring them back. And of course what you had in the

you know, when we were in the combat situation in Vietnam.

So I have experienced a lot

of different scenarios as it relates to this,

this question that what most of us don't really like to talk about but

we know that it's really out there.

I can make an observation,

I think especially with those that I was dialoguing

with before they came

to a point of breathing their last breath.

Just about every one of those

that I can remember - there were questions

probably in the last 60 seconds of our conversation or there were

screams or there was uncontrollable

pain in which young men

and other people, women, were calling out, "oh,

God, don't let me die.

God, don't let me die. Somebody help me. Somebody help me."

And so if we do believe in an infinite personal God, and

we do believe that he has a plan, then I don't think we're creatures

of chance - that there is destiny and that

we have a time on planet Earth, but there's also

an eternity that

we will experience. And so I,

I think everybody knows this at a deeper

level.

I found very few people that

don't believe that there's life after death - matter of fact, on

one of the big surveys that was taken both in England or America,

you know, they were asking all these different types of questions and

one of the questions - if you could ask God

any one question, what would it be? And of course there were a lot of answers that

were all over the place but the two most

were: number one, why am I here?

And the second one: what happens when I die? So we all think about it

and it's the subject that I think

really needs to be addressed in a loving, tender and

rational way. And as I look at the religions of the world,

Christianity really has the answer

that the person Jesus Christ and the context of the Resurrection -

that's life after death. It has been promised.

But I think we need to be more open just to have genuine dialogue as it

relates to this question.

What'd Jesus say? What'd Jesus claim?

Is it true? What's the evidence related to it?

Because I think it's something that all of us

at different times in our life really struggle with.