Still, she survived for five more years. Hardly, and yet, the taxpayers' money has to be protected, so Medicare is cracking down. Their policy is that the terminally ill who do not die within six months risk losing coverage. Especially when we consider, as did the apostle Paul, that life itself is nothing but hospice care. The body is terminally ill from the get go.
Every human being is born dying.
Chapter 15 is the summit of First Corinthians. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. However, Paul uses the pedagogical style of his age to build an incontestable argument in the verses in-between. To Paul, if the Corinthians misunderstand this central tenet of the faith then the discussion of all other issues is not important. For without the resurrection, the faith of the Corinthian Christians and all Christians is useless, and any attempt to live a righteous life is futile.