Comments on: Is There Anything Worse Than Death? http://www.calebwilde.com/2012/08/is-there-anything-worse-than-death-2/ Working at the Crossroads of this World and the Next Wed, 22 May 2013 01:01:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Kristin Tow-Walker http://www.calebwilde.com/2012/08/is-there-anything-worse-than-death-2/#comment-7730 Kristin Tow-Walker Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:20:00 +0000 http://www.calebwilde.com/?p=4615#comment-7730 Leanne, I feel your pain in my own reality. Your words are understood if only by me, thanks for sharing a piece of you. Leanne, I feel your pain in my own reality. Your words are understood if only by me, thanks for sharing a piece of you.

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]]> By: Lex Valentine http://www.calebwilde.com/2012/08/is-there-anything-worse-than-death-2/#comment-6754 Lex Valentine Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:37:00 +0000 http://www.calebwilde.com/?p=4615#comment-6754 Actually, Jim Morrison didn't die from an overdose as many believe. He died of a heart attack brought on by severe uncontrolled asthma. However, his years of alcohol abuse and drug use exacerbated his pre-existing condition and contributed to his death even though it wasn't the direct cause of death. It's pretty much all there in the coroner's report (although it's in French) and in the details of his life in the month prior to his death. Actually, Jim Morrison didn’t die from an overdose as many believe. He died of a heart attack brought on by severe uncontrolled asthma. However, his years of alcohol abuse and drug use exacerbated his pre-existing condition and contributed to his death even though it wasn’t the direct cause of death. It’s pretty much all there in the coroner’s report (although it’s in French) and in the details of his life in the month prior to his death.

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]]> By: Kentucky Packrat http://www.calebwilde.com/2012/08/is-there-anything-worse-than-death-2/#comment-6737 Kentucky Packrat Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.calebwilde.com/?p=4615#comment-6737 <i> Is there something worse than death? I don’t know. And I hope you don’t know either.</I> Hell. Number One Son has a rare autoimmune condition, which first appeared when it let pneumonia destroy half his lung at age 8. There was a time or two when he was in the hospital when things were very rough, and I was down to groaning to the Lord, knowing that the Holy Spirit was praying for me and for us. However, I was comforted knowing No. 1 Son was a baptized believer in Christ. For him, death would not be the end. I can understand where a Christian (or a non-Christian universalist, or even a believer in reincarnation) would see death as more peaceful than a strained life. For Christians, death is just a temporary distraction. My personal trouble is Hell. I fear I didn't do enough to witness to my grandfather, and that he might have gone to Hell. Having to let my family turn his life support off was much less traumatic. I have to console myself with knowing that he and I had talked extensively about God and religion, and that he had been raised by a God-fearing mother in a good church. (For the record, Janis died of a heroin overdose, so she still fits the trends.) Is there something worse than death? I don’t know. And I hope you don’t know either.

Hell.

Number One Son has a rare autoimmune condition, which first appeared when it let pneumonia destroy half his lung at age 8. There was a time or two when he was in the hospital when things were very rough, and I was down to groaning to the Lord, knowing that the Holy Spirit was praying for me and for us. However, I was comforted knowing No. 1 Son was a baptized believer in Christ. For him, death would not be the end.

I can understand where a Christian (or a non-Christian universalist, or even a believer in reincarnation) would see death as more peaceful than a strained life. For Christians, death is just a temporary distraction.

My personal trouble is Hell. I fear I didn’t do enough to witness to my grandfather, and that he might have gone to Hell. Having to let my family turn his life support off was much less traumatic. I have to console myself with knowing that he and I had talked extensively about God and religion, and that he had been raised by a God-fearing mother in a good church.

(For the record, Janis died of a heroin overdose, so she still fits the trends.)

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]]> By: Leanne Penny http://www.calebwilde.com/2012/08/is-there-anything-worse-than-death-2/#comment-6734 Leanne Penny Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:28:00 +0000 http://www.calebwilde.com/?p=4615#comment-6734 Yeah, this makes me cry having a brain damaged and very mentally ill sister and having lost a mother to mental illness and suicide. It's extremely painful carrying them in your heart while they're alive becomes some days they seem to hate life so much you wonder why God keeps giving them days. Then you feel like a terrible person, that no one will understand this feeling, because when you speak it, they don't. And when I think of my children in that light I want to swoop over them like a mother bird and pray gut wrenching prayers that they find real true joy. This is why I never engage in the knee jerk commentary over artists who die from addiction, how can you joke at a child of God who dies clinging to something so empty on their search for something deeper? Who Missed the point? I can only cry. Yeah, this makes me cry having a brain damaged and very mentally ill sister and having lost a mother to mental illness and suicide. It’s extremely painful carrying them in your heart while they’re alive becomes some days they seem to hate life so much you wonder why God keeps giving them days. Then you feel like a terrible person, that no one will understand this feeling, because when you speak it, they don’t.

And when I think of my children in that light I want to swoop over them like a mother bird and pray gut wrenching prayers that they find real true joy.

This is why I never engage in the knee jerk commentary over artists who die from addiction, how can you joke at a child of God who dies clinging to something so empty on their search for something deeper? Who Missed the point? I can only cry.

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