Acceptance of Death

One thing that I can't seem to get over when it comes to the Puritans is their acceptance of Death. They believed that when a person dies it is the will of God. They accept it and move on. How they can believe this is beyond me. When someone dies, it is a very sad and depressing event that takes some time to get over. But with the Puritans they can move on so quickly? I don't understand it. In Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Rowlandson must deal with the death of her child. She knows that her daughter is going to die, yet she accepts it calmly. If I were in Rowlandson's shoes I would not be so calm. I would be furious with God for taking my child from me at such an early age.

When people say to experience something through someone else's shoes, you don't really know how they're feeling. I do. My father died when I was 13 and I was angry as hell at God. I kept asking why he took my dad from me and why did he have to die. There is no way that I would be able to cope with death the way the Puritans do. I take death as a very serious situation and to be able to move on so quickly would be impossible for me. Seeing Rowlandson being able to deal with the death of her daughter calmly infuriates me. I believe that someones death should be mourned, not put out of memory right away.