“’None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s’ (Rom. 14:7-8). Dying to the Lord means experiencing one’s death as the supreme act of obedience to the Father (Phil 2:8), being ready to meet death at the ‘hour’ willed and chosen by him (cf. Jn. 13:1), which can only mean when one’s earthly pilgrimage is completed. Living to the Lord also means recognizing that suffering, while still and evil and tr