Death

Death
To die means to live no more. A person who was identified by a name, a family, a character, a nationality and many lovely values is no more.

Friends Grieve the Passing of a Homeless Man
We made our way down the muddy path through some bushes and trees to the river bank. Chucks [the deceased] dog, Lucy, cowered near his tent, which was still set up. Less than four feet high in the center, it was open and showed old newspapers as insulation against the ground and looked to have...

If Your Child Loses A Parent
Most children live in an idyllic world of saturday cartoons and the loving care of their parents. Unfortuantely, there comes a time when a child will experience death for the first time and it becomes the responsibility of parents to educate their young children on the subject of death and dying...

Help Your Children Understand Death
Most children live in an idyllic world of saturday cartoons and the loving care of their parents. Unfortuantely, there comes a time when a child will experience death for the first time and it becomes the responsibility of parents to educate their young children on the subject of death and dying...

Burial Insurance Buying Guide
Death may seem so morbid to discuss in any given situation, but because it is a fact, some people have thought to generate profit from that concept instead...

How To Minimize Probate Costs
Most people think that dying is the easiest way out for someone who wants to be rid of the legal processes and the costs involved in such processes...

Understanding Wills And Probates
Many believe mistakenly that only affluent individuals should be concerned with leaving wills. If you care for your family and dependents, leaving your will or testament shall ensure that theyll be taken care of even after your death...

Dealing With Sorrow
Some tips to help you or a loved one deal with sorrow.

A Mourning Glory Devotional
I have always loved this commandment mostly because it assumes we love ourselves. At the very least it seems to give us permission to feel good about ourselves and to treat ourselves well because then that is the standard for the treatment of others. I have rarely seen, in this day and age, the kind of love God would have us have for ourselves.

Knowledge of Gods Love
It is both a wonderful and terrible aspect of Gods love that when we lose someone we love, the deep pain we feel can draw us closer to God, the author of life and death. As Christians all our relationships are a triangle, with one another and God at the head. Our deepest selves are connected to one another and to God because it is in Him we live and love and have our true being.

A Balloonful of Love
My husbands tongue and cheek muscles have also fallen prey to ALS (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis) and he has difficulty enunciating his words clearly. But our desire to live each moment that we are granted has led us to make the decision that "Im gonna live, live, live until I die".

Enduring Love
It is a mystery - how in the midst of my husbands dying I can feel our shared love, our shared lives so poignantly and passionately while simultaneously withdrawing emotional energy from our relationship.

I Have To Prove Everything I Own
This happens when you get a loan, file and insurance claim, go to court for numerous reasons and at retirement or going into a nursing home. This is a way to priove everything; all of your papers are in order, a home inventory, financial papers etc.

51 Billion Dollar Industry
Is the rising cost of this industry becoming too much for your family to endure?

Death Dying and the Possibility of a Hereafter
Discussion by a cardiologist of how both he and a dying patient had a spiritual experience which convinced him that death is a transition, not an ending.

Millions Turn to the Simplicity and Savings of Cremation
The choice between cremation and burial is a very personal one and some will flat out not desire this alternative.

Varying Concepts on Death and Dying
The more we study death and dying the greater opportunity we offer ourselves to reduce it to a manageable concept.