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hope - 1st week of Advent

This morning I visited the home in which an elderly gentleman died last night. While his death was expected the loss still hurt. 

The respected thinkers of our age claim that death is the end. After you die there is only nothing, existence is extinguished, reality stops, your consciousness goes dark totally and forever. Ultimately, therefore, all hope is a sham. Even if in this life you should gain everything for which you ever hoped, it will all be taken from you at death. The ancient classical writers viewed hope as a temporary illusion.
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