Or your last child graduates college, gets married and moves to the east coast all in the same weekend. The Scriptures are clear. Jesus was dead. Nobody was expecting resurrection. I can understand why people think that life after death is an idle tale.
Life is preposterous enough.
To suggest that resurrection from the dead is the organizing principle of life, that just as Jesus walked from the tomb that first Easter morning, you and I'll be raised from death, our loved ones, too, the whole of humankind set free from the embrace of death by the grace of God - it's just too strange and terrifying and wonderful for anybody to believe at first. It's a lot to ask somebody to stake their life on, to build their life around. Which is why I'm constantly amazed by the idle tales that people do believe. That it's all just an accident, for example. That there isn't any rhyme or reason or Higher Power at work in life.