Dust of the Earth

Bruce R. McConkie, The Promised Messiah, 222.

Death and mortality go together; they are inseparably intertwined; one cannot exist without the other. Mortality is the state in which men are subject to death, and the existence of death is what makes man or any living creature mortal. And with mortality comes child bearing; mortal creatures father mortal children; mortality is the state where bodies are made of the dust of the earth to provide temporary residences for spirit creations.