An Indiana cemetery has a tombstone over a hundred years old that bears this epitaph:
Pause, Stranger, when you pass me by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you will be,
So prepare for death and follow me.
An unknown passerby had read those words and scratched this reply below them:
To follow you I’m not content,
Until I know which way you went.
The passerby was right, the important thing about death is what follows. Where are you going?
Baker Books , 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, by Michael P. Green