Alma 41 – 42
Mortality, specifically temporal death, is a blessing that provides a ledge whereby we may choose repentance after we fall rather than being consigned to a full and eternal fall the moment we commit a sin. It is interesting therefore that men, by and large, dislike death so much considering the great blessing it represents. I have always realized that we need not fear death because it had been overcome, but now I realize more clearly how physical death is as crucial to the plan, once man had fallen, as the Atonement that overcame that physical death by bringing the resurrection.