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If your house were on fire, you would rejoice to hear that the fire engines were coming down the street. You would feel an absolute certainty that they were coming to you, because your house was in a blaze if no one’s else might be. If there were appointed today a commissioner for the relief of such…

The Israelites were commanded on the Feast of the Passover to put away all leaven out of their houses, and to this day they are very scrupulous about the fulfillment of that command at the time of that great festival. The house is very carefully swept lest a crumb of common leavened bread should remain.…

God could not accept any sacrifice that was touched with the golden tongs or that lay upon the brazen altar so long as those golden tongs and the brazen altar were imperfect. What was done to make them perfect? Why, they were sprinkled with blood; but they had to be sprinkled with blood ever so many…

If I were asked to visit you tomorrow evening, I am sure you would make some preparations for my call—even for one so commonplace as myself. You would prepare, because you would welcome me. If you expected the Queen to call, how excited you would be! What preparation good housewives would make for a…

I have told you before of the bricklayer who fell off a scaffold, and was taken up so injured that it was seen that he must soon die. A good clergyman, bending over him, said, “My dear man, you had better make your peace with God.” The poor fellow opened his eyes and said, “Make my peace with God, sir?…

Christ has gone to heaven to put in an appearance on our behalf. As in a court of law, when a man appears by his attorney, or legal representative, he is in the court, even though he may be miles away. So are we, today, in possession of our eternal inheritance through Him, who has put in an appearance…

One thing that is on every calendar is the time of our death. Many news outlets prepare obituaries of famous people ahead of their deaths so they will be prepared to go to print early when they do die. A French public radio station mistakenly published some of those obituaries, including Queen Elizabeth…

Judy Cashner received a letter from her bank recently. It was addressed to her estate saying, “We are sorry for your loss and understand this is a difficult time for you.” When she checked into it she was told by Wells Fargo that she had died. The bank couldn’t tell her how they decided that she had…

When a person dies there are laws covering how their property is passed on to relatives. The growing use of social media has made some issues of inheritance more confusing. Companies like Google and Facebook contend laws approved decades ago that prevent them from releasing electronic memories unless…

While human life expectancy has increased significantly since the nineteenth century, a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, indicates that there is a limit to human lifespan. “Our results strongly suggest that the maximum lifespan of humans is fixed and subject to natural…

A death simulator called Xinglai is open in China. When you “die,” you lay down on a conveyer belt through a dark tunnel that simulates cremation and then being “reborn” out the other side through a latex womb. The experience “gives you the chance to calm down, give in to some deeper thoughts, and think…

When Pompey was killed, Julius Caesar obtained possession of a large box that contained a vast amount of correspondence that had been carried on with Pompey. There is no doubt whatever that in that box there were many letters from certain of Caesar’s followers making overtures to Pompey, and if Caesar…

A German undertaker received the shock of his life when a coffin lid at his funeral parlor slid open and the supposedly dead woman inside asked, “Where am I?” The man passed out in shock. The 92-year-old woman had been pronounced dead just hours earlier after staff at her retirement home found her unresponsive,…

Cancer is on the verge of overtaking heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death. Heart disease and cancer are primarily diseases of aging. As we continue to make progress on treating heart disease the reason for death has shifted. Fewer people succumbing to heart disease means more people living long…

Scientists are starting to unlock the secrets of aging and believe we are on the threshold of greatly lengthened life spans. They are holding out the possibility of 150 years. Some scientists just refuse to accept that death is beyond human control. “It’s such a profoundly sad, lonely feeling that I…

The oldest man in modern history died on June 12, 2013. At 116 years old he was the last person living who witnessed the 19th century. Jiroemon Kimura was born on April 19, 1897 and died of natural causes. Some people don’t receive many years, others do. Some even get a 116, but in the end there is death.…

Psychiatrist Mark Epstein writing an opinion piece for the Sunday Review of The New York Times reminds us, “Trauma is not just the result of major disasters.” Trauma is a part of ordinary life. “One way or another, death (and its cousins: old age, illness, accidents, separation, and loss) hangs over…

We have known for years that it was important for our health to get at least six hours of sleep per night. Now a new study indicates that getting more than nine hours is likewise unhealthy. That much sleep has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, cognitive problems, and premature death.…

David Kime was a WWII veteran. After his funeral at age 88, his funeral cortege slowly passed through the drive-thru lane at Kime’s favorite Burger King. Each of the 39 mourners had a burger and a 40th burger was placed on Kime’s casket and buried with him. When I reach the final judgment I hope my life…

Woody Allen does not like getting old. “It’s a bad business,” he says. “It’s a confirmation that the anxieties and terrors I’ve had all my life were accurate. There’s no advantage to aging. You don’t get wiser, you don’t get more mellow, you don’t see life in a more glowing way. You have to fight your…

John Demjanjuk recently died. Mr. Demjanjuk had quite a life. Born in the Ukraine, he began WWII in the Russian Army. The German Army captured and imprisoned him. After that, his life story is in dispute. He migrated to the US in 1952 and lived an upstanding American life until Israel accused him of…

Most people assume that their appointment with death is far in the future. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. For example, each year in the United States 27 people meet their end in an elevator accident. Who knew? --The Week, December 30, 2011, p 18 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell…

18-year-old Anthony Johnson had worried a little about Harold Camping’s prediction that the world would end on May 21, 2011. When midnight arrived, Johnson celebrated with friends by jumping into the Kalamazoo River. He never came out of the river. The world ended for Anthony early on May 22. http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/05/kalamazoo_river_drowning_victi.html…

The longest living human on record in the modern era was Jeanne Calment of France. She lived to be 122 and died in 1997. The New England Centenarian Study at the Boston Medical Center studies aging and people who live past 100. The Gerontological Society of America reported that the number of Americans…

ETERNITY David Murdock is an 87-year-old billionaire who has spent $500 million building a research campus in North Carolina to explore his conviction that they key to longer life is a low-fat diet rich in vegetables, fruit, and antioxidants. “I never have anything go wrong,” says Murdock. “Never had…