Columbia: In hopes of a gentle passage

I hope this does not offend anyone of a different religious background, which means almost everyone. It's from A Course in Miracles.

This is what death should be; a quiet choice,
Made joyfully and with a sense of peace,
Because the body has been kindly used
To help the Son of God along the way
He goes to God. We thank the body, then,
For all the service it has given us.
But we are thankful, too, the need is done
To walk the world of limits, and to reach
The Christ in hidden forms and clearly seen
At most in lovely flashes. Now we can
Behold Him without blinders, in the light
That we have learned to look upon again.

We call it death, but it is liberty.
It does not come in forms that seem to be
Thrust down in pain upon unwilling flesh,
But as a gentle welcome to release.
If there has been true healing, this can be
The form in which death comes when it is time
To rest a while from labor gladly done
And gladly ended. Now we go in peace
To freer air and gentler climate, where it
Is not hard to see the gifts we gave
Were saved for us. For Christ is clearer now;
His vision more sustained in us; His Voice,
The Word of God, more certainly our own.