'I sometimes hear old people, including Christian people who should know better, say "I don't want to be a burden to anyone else. I'm happy to carry on living so long as I can look after myself, but as soon as I become a burden I would rather die." But this is wrong. We are all designed to be a burden to others. You are designed to be a burden to me and I am designed to be a burden to you. And the life of the family, including the life of the local church family, should be one of "mutual burdensomeness". "Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2).'
John Stott, The Radical Disciple, p.112.
