Death is a doorway to another life, and the dying person release the spirit to take up new residence in a different dimension, it is a permanent separation from this life and it is an event that every person must prepare to face one day, people die young and people die old, age has very little to do with dying it is just part of the unending process that we eventually come to terms with, it would seemed from all indications that God puts a time limit upon each individual person, some people live long and healthy lives while others are plague with troubles and suffering.

Death can be a capital punishment for doing things wrong and keep the fear of detention over in the path of law and order, death is like a victory serenade swallowing up life and taking away wealth, position and purpose, leaving the spirit to find eternal life, Death comes as the invited stranger, and bears a terrible shock to the human system, something disturbing in our normal day to day life, the prospect of death is he bankruptcy of annihilation which steals our soul and place it in the waiting area of purgatory, this uninvited displeasure is not something that we are used to, and we often to our detriment ignore the little warning signs and rules which restrict our movements.

The very thought of death is nearer to us than we really want to acknowledge, but its not something that really accrue to us until the moment the sting of death is upon us, sprawled in helpless disposition, I read somewhere in troubled Corinthians that the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is law, but I never fully understood what that meant, only I am assured the deaths the result of sin directly and indirectly, and it would seemed that it is an hereditary trait fallen to all mankind.

Death is a barrier to further enjoyment of life, cutting people off in their prime, leaving families bathing in tearful remorse, the danger of death we can not freely ignore as we like, even though we try to prolong its appointment with medication and clean healthy living, it is appointed to man to die once, and after that comes the judgment, but even after the shock of finding out what illness we are suffering from, the diagnosed gives no leverage for escape.

And most of the time we are painfully aware that the person is going to die pretty soon, the indicators all light up in the right places and closes down where we would love to see a miracle, incurable conditions are pitiful, desecrating body tissues that

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