Imprint not available. Before us are the letters of the great Russian saint, the famous theologian Saint Theophan the Recluse .. Here are the answers to the letters of his spiritual children, who asked him about everything. The saint, summarizing the experience of the Church, the Holy Fathers and his own experience, gave simple and clear answers. This episode is dedicated to the Christian attitude to illness and death, with which we meet so often in life, and always these meetings are associated with grief, despair, despondency. Here is an infirm old man, exhausted by old age and diseases . Here is a man who was once full of strength, and now is broken by a serious illness .. Here is a young man who makes plans for the future, but whose dreams are ruined by the disease . But here is an innocent baby, whose first feelings on earth were suffering and pain. Diseases and suffering are inseparable companions that accompany us in life from birth. Next to the disease, there is another test that frightens some, others are forced by any means to erase the memories of this. This trial is death. How much grief it brings us . How great is the grief of a spouse who has lost his or her half How great is the suffering of a mother who has lost her child When faced with these trials, one can murmur and doubt the greatness of God. If death and disease are inevitable, then our life is unjust and meaningless. Is it true that one has good health and the other suffers from a serious illness? What is the punishment for him? Is it fair when death abducts one of the two people close to him? Are they worse than those who have lived a life of well-being? How can we accept the idea that everything gained by labor has to be lost in the face of death in an instant? The advice given by the saint will help us to move away from the values that are imposed on us by the fallen world and look at life as the gospel teaches us.