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Waiting for the end, at least enjoying the interval (Schopenhauer)? Death as a more proper being-ability, which definitively makes man responsible as being-in-the-world (Heidegger), but only for this world? Death as wandering of bloodless simulacra in Hades (Homer) or as liberation to be able to make the soul live through which we know the essence of things, the Truth (Socrates)? Death is generally always too premature because man wants to live (M. Recalcati) and for this reason its fatal arrival inspires fear. The Christian vision, on the other hand, is radically new: death entered the world because of sin; it is the tribute we pay for the condemnation inflicted on Adam (St. Augustine). A mystery, certainly, but no longer a debilitating wait. It is a constant, Christian passage, a conversion that man needs. Death, in the words of St. Augustine, is "the passage from infidelity to faith, from iniquity to justice, from pride to humility, from hatred to charity" (Homily 22). Thus we pass from death to life without going to meet judgment (cf. Jn 5:24). The Christian does not wait for death but lives it every day in the effort to constantly pass to life, to live as one who has risen, here and now, in the Truth and Love of God.