As anyone who knows the Lord can tell you, the world and God's Kingdom are complete and total opposites.  Take weddings and funerals for example.  In the world, when people marry, there is great rejoicing,  while at funerals there is sadness and mourning. For the Saints of God , however,  wedding and funeral ceremonies are switched. When we marry - we celebrate death, the death of self, for marriage is the final nail in self's coffin - we can no longer live for ourselves after we marry but we sacrafice self in service to our spouse and children. And at our funerals, we celebrate marriage  - our marriage to The Lamb, which we may fully enter into when we die. When our self dies, then when our bodies die, our self lives on forever, but if we never die to self, then when our bodies die, our souls die too. So, funerals for us Saints are really wedding feasts, to practice for the one to come, while weddings are really funerals (albeit joyous ones).