- “We are not going to die. We are deathless beings. We lived before we came into this world, and we shall live after we go out of it. What we call death is not worthy of the name. There is no death for the righteous. Christ died to destroy death. The change called death is but a temporary separation of the spirit from the body. None of our departed ones are dead. They have but gone before. This so-called death, when properly understood, is simply going back home.” Orson F Whitney, Improvement Era, May 1916, pp 608-9