Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Holy Gardens group helps you transform the ugliness of death into a beautiful life story ending


The harsh ugliness and macabre picture of lifes end game. Only a nice and appropriate memorial service: interment and funeral can hide the ugliness and make the past life and look memorable and honorable. Only the expert hands and caring of an expert embalmer can make the deceased look beautiful, the funeral director can provide the appropriate casket, have nice flowers and theme, provide the music, the decorations and ceremonies to make this a nice occasion a home coming, a family affair.

PM text or call how we can help us transform these ugly reality into something beautiful. Beautiful life stories ending

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WHAT IS THE BEAUTY OF LIFE ?

Ugliness, the realities  of death and dying.

 Look at the picture below and answer these questions.
1. Where is the money that has made you so disrespectful?
 2. Where is the beauty that has made you so proud and pompous?
3. Where are the cars that have made you a colossus over people ?
4.Where are the certificates and accolades that have made you a CEO, and therefore your workers play second fiddle to you?
 5.Where are the friends that flank you to fool?
6.How beautiful are you in the grave?
7.Where are the property for which you are willing to even kill a fellow human being to get?
8. Where are the breasts and buttocks that you spent money to enlarge to the neglect of your family and friends? IT IS GOOD TO BE RICH, IT IS GOOD TO OWN PROPERTY, IT IS GOOD TO BE BEAUTIFUL, BUT IN ALL THESE, LET HUMANITY BE YOUR PRIORITY. THE GRAVE IS THE ONLY PLACE THAT THE RICH AND THE POOR BECOME EQUAL. ENJOY YOUR WEALTH, BUT LET HUMANITY BE FIRST. #ctto VANITY UPON VANITY, ALL IS VANITY.

 The Human Body After Death. 
*3 days after death, finger nails begin to fall;
*4 days after death, hairs breaks out of the skull and all body hairs fall;
*5 days after death, the brain starts to sag, the flesh fades, the buttock, breast, penis, Vagina, will decay (those things that normally drives u into sin, hmmm)
*6 days after death, the skin begins to noircir and gradually detach from the bones;
 *7 days after death, the belly melts and radiates a strong odour beginning with a gaping mouth and a genital organ appealing the marauders;
 *60 days after death, the whole human body is reduced to nothing bones; -

So therefore; Why too much pride? Why too much selfishness? Why too much hate? Why too much jealousy? Why too much evil deeds? Man is a dust and must surely go back to the dust to help the land to be fertile. Do u think that u are the owner of yourself? Why not humble yourself? Why not love your neighbours? Stop those selfish acts? You are only living by God's Grace.

Sunday, March 3, 2019

Death does not exist; only continuation and transition of life

Memorial experts

Death does not exist.  Death is nothing at all.

Most religions deny the existence of death. What we know even from Ecclesiastes is that when a person dies, his soul/spirit returns to the Lord.   While his material body returns to the earth.  But his basic life returns to the Lord.

In other words, life is merely transformed.... From material to spiritual

Hence we do not need to fear our death, nor mourn the end of material life of a loved one

Death is a fiction


Monday, August 22, 2016

Why we should not fear death and be ready to welcome this?

I was watching Focus of Bro Ely Soriano at UNTV and he answered a question from Canada.  Her friend who was 27 died of brain cancer. She asked why God allows that.

The answer of Bro. Ely were as follows:

1.  DEATH IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN NOT AVOID.

From Hebrew 9:27  "And it was appointed unto men once to die,  but after this judgment."  Man is destined to die, and we can't avoid this.  All living things including men will die. And after this we shall be judged.

2.   Man can not overcome the power of God

Ecclesiastes 8:8  " There is no men that hath power  over spirit that hath power over spirit; neither hath he power in the day of the death."

We have to accept the inevitability of death.  Death according to  Steve Jobs in his speech at Stanford,  is one of the invention of God and the Universe.  The old dies and is replaced by new.  Death gives way to new life

3.  We should accept death, judgement and promise of everlasting life.  
1 John 2:25.  "And that is the promise that he hath promised us ever, eternal life"

We fear not death even if it is inevitable for there will be everlasting life after judgement.  Death may be painful and ugly for many of us. But in view of the above readings in the scriptures, never should we fear or abhor death.  We see death in a better light.  And because we know it, the more we should accept and prepare for this as we welcome memorial products and services

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Death quotes to live by

Getting higher and strongerIt’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up — that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” B. R. Hayden
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living.” Arlo Guthrie
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Mark Twain
“Man always dies before he is fully born.” Erich Fromm
“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.” Miguel de Unamuno
“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” Errol Flynn
“Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.” Elie Wiesel

 From Inspiring through Quotes

“Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.” Bryant H. McGill
“Call no man happy till he is dead.” Aeschylus
“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.” Carter Burwell
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” Helen Keller
“Death is the tyrant of the imagination.” Barry Cornwall
“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.” Bertolt Brecht
“Dying is easy, it’s living that scares me to death.” Annie Lennox
“Everything that gets born dies.” Morrie Schwartz
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” William Penn
“He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.” Giovanni Falcone
“He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.” Adam Clarke
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.” Erik H. Erikson
“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.” Willa Cather
“I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“If you don’t have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.” Scott Caan
“John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time.”
Maureen O’Hara
“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.” Quintus Ennius
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.” Francis Bacon
“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.” Euripides
“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.” Ernst Moritz Arndt
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” George Eliot
“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.” Jean Cocteau
“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” Edward W. Howe
“Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.” Henry Van Dyke

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”
Albert Einstein
“The idea is to die young as late as possible.” Ashley Montagu
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.” Lord Byron
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
Buddha
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
Samuel Butler
“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
David Sarnoff
“Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.”  Saul Alinsky
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pike
“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.” John Greenleaf Whittier

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” Leonardo da Vinci
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. Unknown
“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” William Ross Wallace
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk
“A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.” Brian Williams
“Death is nothing. But to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” Napoleon Bonaparte
“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.” Chuck Palahniuk
“On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” Chuck Palahniuk
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.” Arthur Schopenhauer
The first step to eternal life is, you have to die.” Chuck Palahniuk
“There is nothing certain in a mans life but that he must lose it.” Owen Meredith
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” J.M. BARRIE, Peter Pan
“Dying is like getting audited by the IRS–something that only happens to other people … until it happens to you.”
Jerome P. Crabb
“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.” Sir Thomas Browne
“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.” Ian Fleming
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”  Anais Nin
“As soon as one is born, one starts dying.” Luigi Pirandello
“Dying is like coming to the end of a long novel–you only regret it if the ride was enjoyable and left you wanting more.”
Jerome P. Crabb
“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”  Abraham Lincoln
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
“No one on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time on my business’.” Paul E. Tsongas
“Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.” E. H. Chapin
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”  Amelia Burr
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”  James F. Bymes

When someone dies in the family, we are overwhelmed with grief and sorrow.  Yet we must go on living.  Here are quotes that will kickstart us to live again:

Thursday, November 3, 2011

20 Bible Verses on Death from Hub Pages.

Setting the Standards In Memorialization


Death could be very discomforting and lonely. Friends may come and comfort us. But there will be times when we are alone. These words can comfort us in case of loss of a loved one. Or comfort others who experienced the loss.

Here is the list of verses from Hub Pages:

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Bible verses to help comfort those dealing with a death

Be still, and know that I am God
Psalm 46:10

"A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth."
Ecclesiastes 7:1

Jesus replied, "You do not realise now what I am doing, but later you will understand."
John 13:7

“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid."
John 14:27

Longer Bible passages about death

Psalm 103:8-17

8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful,
      slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
 9 He will not constantly accuse us,
      nor remain angry forever.
 10 He does not punish us for all our sins;
      he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.
 11 For his unfailing love toward those who fear him
      is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
 12 He has removed our sins as far from us
      as the east is from the west.
 13 The Lord is like a father to his children,
      tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
 14 For he knows how weak we are;
      he remembers we are only dust.
 15 Our days on earth are like grass;
      like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
 16 The wind blows, and we are gone—
      as though we had never been here.
 17 But the love of the Lord remains forever
      with those who fear him.
   His salvation extends to the children’s children

A time for everything - even death

Ecclesiastes 3:1-

A Time for Everything 1 For everything there is a season,
      a time for every activity under heaven.
 2 A time to be born and a time to die.
      A time to plant and a time to harvest.
 3 A time to kill and a time to heal.
      A time to tear down and a time to build up.
 4 A time to cry and a time to laugh.
      A time to grieve and a time to dance.
 5 A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
      A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
 6 A time to search and a time to quit searching.
      A time to keep and a time to throw away.
 7 A time to tear and a time to mend.
      A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
 8 A time to love and a time to hate.
      A time for war and a time for peace.

Death has lost it's victory

1 Corinthians 15:42-57

 42 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. 43 Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory. They are buried in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. 44 They are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies, there are also spiritual bodies.
 45 The Scriptures tell us, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.”[a] But the last Adam—that is, Christ—is a life-giving Spirit. 46 What comes first is the natural body, then the spiritual body comes later. 47 Adam, the first man, was made from the dust of the earth, while Christ, the second man, came from heaven. 48 Earthly people are like the earthly man, and heavenly people are like the heavenly man. 49 Just as we are now like the earthly man, we will someday be like[b] the heavenly man.
 50 What I am saying, dear brothers and sisters, is that our physical bodies cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. These dying bodies cannot inherit what will last forever.
 51 But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed! 52 It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed. 53 For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies.
 54 Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die,[c] this Scripture will be fulfilled:
   “Death is swallowed up in victory.[d]
 55 O death, where is your victory?
      O death, where is your sting?[e]
 56 For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Life after death Bible passage

Revelation 21:1-7

The New Jerusalem 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
 3 I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.[a]4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
 5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” 6 And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. 7 All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.

Bible verses for funerals

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

The Hope of the Resurrection
13 And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died[a] so you will not grieve like people who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.
15 We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died.[b]16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the Christians who have died[c] will rise from their graves. 17 Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever.

Philippians 1:20-23

Paul’s Life for Christ
20 For I fully expect and hope that I will never be ashamed, but that I will continue to be bold for Christ, as I have been in the past. And I trust that my life will bring honor to Christ, whether I live or die. 21 For to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better. 22 But if I live, I can do more fruitful work for Christ. So I really don’t know which is better. 23 I’m torn between two desires: I long to go and be with Christ, which would be far better for me.

2 Corinthians 4:16-15:8

16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits arebeing renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

2 Corinthians 5

1 For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. 2 We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. 3 For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies. 4 While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. 5 God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit. 6 So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. 7 For we live by believing and not by seeing. 8 Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.

Romans 8:31-39

31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalm 23:1-6

1 The Lord is my shepherd;
I have all that I need.
2 He lets me rest in green meadows;
he leads me beside peaceful streams.
3 He renews my strength.
He guides me along right paths,
bringing honor to his name.
4 Even when I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will not be afraid,
for you are close beside me.
Your rod and your staff
protect and comfort me.
5 You prepare a feast for me
in the presence of my enemies.
You honor me by anointing my head with oil.
My cup overflows with blessings.
6 Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me
all the days of my life,
and I will live in the house of the Lord
forever.

Isaiah 41:10-13


10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you.
I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
11 “See, all your angry enemies lie there,
confused and humiliated.
Anyone who opposes you will die
and come to nothing.
12 You will look in vain
for those who tried to conquer you.
Those who attack you
will come to nothing.
13 For I hold you by your right hand—
I, the Lord your God.
And I say to you,
‘Don’t be afraid. I am here to help you.

Gospel Bible verses about death

John 14:1-6

Jesus, the Way to the Father   “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2There is more than enough room in my Father’s home.[a] If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?[b]3When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. 4And you know the way to where I am going.”
 5 “No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
 6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

John 11:17-27

 17 When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days. 18 Bethany was only a few miles[a] down the road from Jerusalem, 19 and many of the people had come to console Martha and Mary in their loss. 20 When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask.”
 23 Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.”
 24 “Yes,” Martha said, “he will rise when everyone else rises, at the last day.”
 25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life.[b] Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?”
 27 “Yes, Lord,” she told him. “I have always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God.”

John 6:35-40

 35 Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36But you haven’t believed in me even though you have seen me. 37However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them. 38For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will. 39And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day. 40For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”






Tributes for Life

Friday, August 19, 2011

Visit to Holy Angel Memorial Park This Morning - Emphasizing How Our Ultimate Destiny Affects Our Sales and Job Performance

Setting the Standards In Memorialization Tributes for Life

It was after a slight drizzle when I arrived at HAMP this morning at about 8 am.  All the staff were all ready there and I called for a meeting.

I emphasized again as I emphasized on this blog:

l.  That the ultimate goal of people is to live with God when they die.

2.  That ultimately, life's journey is from birth to death.  Death, undenialbly is the ultimate destination.  Those who are born, and those who have life have for their final destination, Death. Where do you end up?  Do you have a place to be?

If you have none, then Juan has got to buy one, if he has none.

3.  This should put a different perspective on how we handle our job:

      Sales -  It is your mission to make sure that every one has got his final end point ready.  There must be a receiver, a nice receptacle for the mortal remains of every one.

     Garden technicians -  they have to be very careful and meticulous in maintaining and cleaning the plots of the deceased.  The plot represents ALL THAT HAS BEEN, PAST, THE LOVE, THE LAUGHTER, THE LABOR, THE LEARNINGS  of the beloved.  Therefore, the grave shall lovingly cared for cleaned and respected.  Our garden tech must bear that in mind..  I hope everybody does.