DEATH AND DYING. . .AGING--ONE'S LAST GIFT J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB l984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME As a believer, I have always been uncomfortable with the American way of death. It strikes me as being particularly pagan. There is too much emphasis on material things at this moment given to the soul. Why the costly caskets? Funeral displays? Elaborate fringes? Gawking at the deceased? "My, doesn't he look nice?" "They did a good job on her, didn't they?" Please. Enough. There has to be another way, I used to ponder. Yet for years, I...