I asked him, in a tender moment, what it was like to be dying. For I am dying too. We are all dying. The Christian faith insists on frank acceptance of reality. The pervasive denial of death is a denial of reality, and thus a denial of God.
Death is an ugly, painful reality.
But it is real, and the Christian faith is not about pretending that it is uncertain, merely potential, or trivial. We are not to paper over the reality of death. Souls are not immortal. Souls die, when bodies die. The death of a body would then be no worse than the loss of a limb.