While working my way through Wright’s monster-sized volume on the resurrection (The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3)), I found this inspiring nugget:

Paul will not say that death is a good thing; it is still, for him, the final enemy (1 Corinthians 15.26). But even if it should occur, God is greater than death, and will perform on a large scale that rescue for which Jesus’ resurrection is the model and present apostolic experience the foretaste.