Caesar Borgia was a man of purpose. His ambition was to have wealth and power, and he attained both. First, he became Archbishop of Valenza, then a cardinal, and afterwards Duke of Valentinois. But when death claimed him, he left his riches and position, and he took only his sins with him into eternity.
Realizing this before he died, he groaned while dying: “In the course of my life, I have provided for everything except for death. Now I am dying, though completely unprepared for it!”
Is Borgia the only one so foolish? No. The towns and cities of this country swarm with men and women who are unprepared to die. Many people to whom death would mean eternal damnation are totally untroubled about it. They think of everything, provide for everything, except death. “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:3636For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36)).