Lets Talk About DEATH!

Let me share my Grandmother with you. While working in a nursing home at the age of 18 I had my first taste of Alzheimer's and then began to pray that my parents and grandparents would have a sound mind for the rest of their lives. Grandma had her first heart attack at the age of about 62. When she was 79 she got her GED. How excited and proud she was. At the age of 83 she slipped a disc in her back and was only out of pain when she was sitting. So, decided to learn to play the guitar and harmonica. (She then played in a gospel band) At the age of 84 wanted my 16 year old son to give her a hug and when he refused informed him in her words, "Inside this wrinkly old body there is a beautiful 18 year old!" He gave her a hug. When she was 87 as her youngest daughter (age 57) was dying from Cancer Grandma said, "Well, we're all terminal you know, it's just that some of us are going sooner than others". When she was 89 she told me, "Becky, don't ever get old! Don't die young, but don't get old!" At the age of 93 sitting by her side as she was dying we played a tape of Grandpa singing, "How Great Thou Art". She was in so much pain and you could just see peace and comfort completely engolf her. (Grandpa went to heaven in 1977, 24 years earlier than this) Being bedridden the last 10 years of my GreatGrandmother's life (Grandma's mother) she wrote songs and poems and prayed for the salvation of all her children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren (Me) and greatgreatgrandchildren.

Sarah Minnie Lusk!
How I treasure the memories, legacy, and love of God that she taught me!

Becky

 

I think I agree with Dr. Bob if I understand his meaning.

I am enjoying this life very much with my family and grandchildren.

As I grow older, I am not afraid of death, not afraid to die, but I can see how much more I can learn and how much closer I can be to the
Lord God in this life. I feel that I am just beginning to learn many of the things that I should have learned about the Bible, Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit that I should have known all along. I am thankful that He has given me the chance to live and learn.

I was saved when I was nine years old. I have been in a Baptist Church all my life. I graduated from a Baptist University, but there is still so much to learn. There is so much more to do here on earth, but the Lord knows when He wants us Home to be with Him.

 

3 points or questions I would like to make:

If Jesus comes back and takes believers with him, they won't die a physical death, correct? I remember as a kid that I always wanted the end of the world to come so that I wouldn't have to die a physical death.

Also, someone mentioned 120 years as about max life cycle. How about so many people in the Bible living to be 900 yrs old and such? And when one asks if I believe everything in the Bible literally and I answer yes, what is a good answer for someone pertaining to people living so many years back in the Bible days?

3rd and last point is I often wonder if the world of medical technology keeps improving, do you think there is a chance people could start living to be 200, 300, or even 900? We can now fly planes, cure many diseases, and even clone.........Any thoughts?

 

AF Guy, medical technology has added years to your life, but thankfully, technology is now adding life to your years instead

 

I spent a portion of the day with a lady I call
"MyMom." She is actually my first husband's
mother, but she is MyMom to me. She and I held
each other and wept over the death of her son,
who was my first husband, which occurred 26
years ago on the last day of April. She is amazed
that it remains so fresh a grief for her, but as I told
her, I remarried and got a new husband; she did
not acquire a new son.

Remarrying never replaces that first; one merely
gets a different husband. That first one remains
imprinted in the memory, while still enjoying the
second. The first never detracts from the second,
nor the second from the first. But when it is a son,
one's child of any gender, the pain seems to never
cease.

I love MyMom. I wish I could be near her.