Wanting to Die: Death is the Reward in Narnia?

In Narnia the end goal of everything is to die in Aslan’s good graces so you can pass the final judgement and be accepted into Aslan’s country when you die, which is where Aslan says “The story goes on forever and each chapter is better than the last. This is also evident in Christianity, went it boils down to it in Christianity while you desire to live a good life, the reason you work to believe in God and lead a good life is to get into heaven. Our future lives in Heaven have been described as the Utopia we deserve after enduring a life of suffering on earth. This is also evident in the telling of the rapture where good Christians will get to die and be taken into heaven and the rest of the world will be left on earth to endure more suffering. In the Chronicles of Narnia, Reepicheep, is a close ally of Aslan and is always, at any given notice willing to die for Aslan’s cause because he knows when he dies he will be accepted into Aslan’s Country, in some situation one could say he is excited at the prospect of death as he’ll get to live there. After the final battle when Aslan reveals all to the children while Narnia is falling apart, and everything is coming to an end, that they have already died in a tragic train accident that also claimed the lives of their parents. After everything they have done and worked for to save Narnia, their reward is that they have died. This has lead Phillip Pullman to deem C. S. Lewis “life-hating”, and that his books promoted that death was superior to life. Which is a sentiment I believe most of can understand but, I don’t believe that this was the intention, I think Lewis was just trying to emulate the Christian sentiment of living a good life, being devoted to God, and being rewarded in the after life. The ending of the last book of the series was disappointing to many, and has been called lazy writing, that rather than figuring out a future for the Pevensie children and friends Lewis killed them off to end the book series neatly in Aslan’s Country. Through a seven book series we build a serious relationship with these characters, they’re relatable and some individuals who read the book s grew up with these characters felt true loss at the end of the series upon learning that they had died.