Death

The world is a very dangerous place—you never get out of it alive.

At what year of age is the number of deaths greater? According to insurance company averages, the number of deaths is greatest in the first year after birth. In 1961, there were 107,965 infant deaths reported in the United States. This was more than the number for each age from 1 through 55 years. A secondary peak in the number of deaths occurs near age 77.

Population statistics indicate that nearly 3 billion people may have lived on the earth at the time of Noah’s Flood. This means that 3 billion were killed by God’s judgment at the Flood.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. —Thomas Browne

Even throughout life, ’tis death that makes life live, Gives it whatever the significance. —Robert Browning,

Sign in undertaker’s office: “Try our layaway plan.” —Farmer’s Almanac

May you be in heaven a full half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead. —Irish blessing

Russia has the world’s largest cemetery. In Leningrad, there is a burial site which contains over 500,000 victims of the German army’s seige of 1941–42.

A Swedish doctor in a new book says he discovered the human soul weighs 21 grams. He placed beds of terminal patients on sensitive scales and saw the needle drop when the patients died, he says. —Pastor’s Manual

A New York writer, wanting to will his body to science, selected Harvard as the recipient—”because my parents wanted me to go there and this is the only way I could get in.” —Time

Charles IX, king of France, exclaimed on his deathbed, “What blood, what murders, what evil counselors have I followed; I am lost; I see it well.”

If I knew where I am going to die, I’d never go near the place.

Alexander the Great left orders that when he was carried to the grave, his hands should not be wrapped in the specially treated clothes used by the embalmers of that day, but rather be exposed to view so that all might see that they were empty!

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. —Henry Fielding

Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. —Sir Walter Scott

Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come. —Leon Jaworski

When you are born, you cry and people rejoice. When you die, people cry, and, if you are saved, you rejoice.