Is Death a Disaster?

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"If we say that early death is a calamity, disaster or a tragedy, would it not be saying that mortality is preferable to earlier entrance into the spirit world and to eventual salvation and exaltation? If mortality be the perfect state, then death would be a frustration but the Gospel teaches us there is no tragedy in death, but only in sin."

Spencer W. Kimball, Tragedy or Destiny, Brigham Young University Speeches of the Year, 6 Dec. 1955