Death

Have you actually taken the time to think that some day, you will die? YOU WILL DIE! You will surely die. Some day in the future, your corpse will be laying inside a shiny coffin. Your coffin will be draped with flowers. Formaldehyde will have substituted your blood. People, your loved ones will be crowding around your coffin and crying. They will be talking about you...your life...your Death. Your rotting corpse will be snug inside the confines of an expensive and overpriced coffin. Depending on the type of death you will experience, you will have an open or closed coffin ceremony. The minister presiding over your service will speak a few words and will pretend to know you. There will be no silence. Crying will be heard throughout your service.

Worse yet, have you actually taken the time to ponder HOW you will die? Will you be decapitated in a horrible car accident as you are ejected through the windshield...perhaps you will burn to death. You will inhale flames to end it quickly. Will you be shot to death by an intruder? That's not a bad way to go. Will you be poisoned to death by consuming cyanide, rat poison, or even by consuming mercury from something as common as a home thermometer? Maybe you will die from a poisonous snake bite. That is a very painful way to go. Perhaps you will starve to death after an apocalyptic earthquake destroys all your survival needs. Will you drown during your vacation? Maybe, just maybe you'll suffer the worst death possible. "What could it be," you might be wondering. Have you ever held your breath just to see how long you can hold it? Imagine not being able to take that deep breath again...imagine you are not playing around anymore...imagine someone behind you choking you to death. Your eyes will pop out...your facial veins will explode painfully. Your arteries will pulsate their last bit of oxygen to your extremities...it is the most horrible death known to man...death by asphyxiation. Try it now. Hold your breath. Hold it as long as you can. Now imagine, imagine not being able to release it.

Imagine someone hiding inside your car, behind the front seat. It is late in the evening and you are excited to go home. Suddenly, someone or something puts a plastic bag over your head. All you could suck in is a mouthful of plastic. It gets hot, your eyes are burning. Your lungs and chest are pounding. They're looking for oxygen, air, life...they're screaming for life. THEY are screaming for life. You feel your eyes coming off your face...you begin coughing out blood from the busted blood vessels. You slowly begin to pass out...it is excruciatingly painful...you look for a quick death but you cannot find it. A torturous pain morbidly grips your entire body. Your body begins to cramp. By now, the pain is so severe that it keeps you from falling into unconsciousness.

Don't discount this event. You see it in the news all the time. Everyday, you hear the news about someone being strangled to death. Choked to death. Death by asphyxiation. This isn't about asphyxiation, this is about death. This is about dying...about closing your eyes and never opening them here again. Here? What do I mean by 'Here'...I mean Here. Here, right now, today, this very instant...in this very cold world and time.

My name is Death. I will come get you some day. Some day, you will surely DIE! I don't determine the date...I don't determine the method...I can't even determine where YOU will die. But keep this in mind...and remember this very well...YOU WILL SURELY DIE...and when you open your eyes again in that OTHER place...will you be in Heaven with Jesus or in Hell with Satan...?

My name is Death...you WILL meet me some day.

I am Death.

You will die.