In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Genesis 3:19
"When he left the beautiful Eden, the thought that he must die thrilled him with horror. He looked upon death as a dreadful calamity. The sentence of death pronounced upon him by his MAKER, which at first appeared so terrible to him, after he had lived some hundreds of years, looked just and merciful in God, to bring an end to a miserable life."
Spiritual Gifts p.50,51 E.G.W.