O God,

Help us to live as those who are prepared to die.

And when our days here are accomplished,

enable us to die as those who go forth to live,

so that living or dying, our life may be in you,

and that nothing in life or in death will be able to separate us

from your great love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amen.

(Services of Death and Resurrection in The United Methodist Book of Worship)