I will always remember what Spurgeon said about Ps. 23:4...

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the SHADOW of death, I will fear no evil." Ps. 23:4

"It is only the SHADOW of death. It feels like death, but it isn't. And if physical death comes, for the Christian it is not death at all. It is only the "shadow of death"....for there is life forevermore with the Lord."