"Any man's death diminishes me," wrote John Donne, "because I am involved in Mankind." Yet he was also able to write: "Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful... for thou art not so... Those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, die not... " Donne was Dean of St Paul's in the days of Charles I, but the Christian truths he preached there over 300 years ago are timeless. The paradox of death incorporates tragedy and triumph;...