Our Eternal Destiny - Seeing the Forest for the Trees.
Alternative coffins. One enthusiastic supporter said that "becoming a tree" would allow her to live and breathe forever. Actually, the tree, too, will one day die. Then, the tree will be consumed by slugs and 'shrooms who will also die. I would call this dying forever, not living forever, a terrible prospect.
We know we were made for a purpose! Pope Benedict XVI said, "The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."
Fr. John Hardon wrote, "Why is human life sacred? Because, although we are conceived and born in time, we shall never die. Bodies die and decay; we are meant to live for all eternity. Man's end is not earthly but celestial, not temporary but everlasting. This ultimate end is nothing less than to be united with the divine community of Holy Trinity."
A tree cannot know God or love God or neighbor, cannot long for truth or appreciate beauty, including the beauty of itself. A tree cannot forgive or ask forgiveness.
Jesus said he was going to prepare a place for us and that if it weren't true, he wouldn't have said it. I'm pretty confident the most gorgeous forest in the world couldn't hold a candle to what Jesus has in store.