Death - A Wonderful Way to Explain It!

A sick man turned to his doctor, as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said, "Doctor, I am afraid to die. Tell me what lies on the other side."
Very quietly, the doctor said, "I don't know."

"You don't know? You, a Christian man, do not know what is on the other side?"
The doctor was holding the handle of the door; on the other side came a sound of scratching and whining, and as he opened the door, a dog sprang into the room and leaped on him with an eager show of gladness.

Turning to the patient, the doctor said, "Did you notice my dog? He's never been in this room before. He didn't know what was inside. He knew nothing except that his master was here, and when the door opened, he sprang in without fear. I know little of what is on the other side of death, but I do know one thing... I know my Master is there and that is enough."

I was just reading in the news about this 11 year old girl, Mariana Amper, who hanged herself because of the poor conditions she and her family was in. What gets me the most is not her being poor, but her losing hope. If one loses hope, all fails.

A similar story regarding another young person, Maningning Miclat. She is full of life one day and the next dead falling on the seventh floor of the FEU building... accident or suicide? We don't know and we might never know... but what did go on the minds of these two young people to seemingly lose hope? Death at a young age is so painful for those that are left behind, what comfort is there on the "other side"? The above inspirational story might be of comfort, all we hope for is that promise in the afterlife.