Some people are scared to talk about it or even think about it. It is something that science cant change. Some very optimistic souls like baseball star Ted Williams and 168 others have been cryonically preserved, requesting their bodies or heads remain frozen in chambers filled with liquid nitrogen at minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit. The $200,000 fee should cover cold storage costs for decades to come. The hope is that one day those patients will live again.
Ive often caught myself saying, If I die, go ahead and do thus and so with my body, only to realize I should be saying, When I die do this with my body and my estate. Actually Ive never even thought about having my body frozen. I struggle to bear up in winters cold weather, but putting humor aside, how do we deal with our own mortality?
I often think of a tale, I heard related on radio, by the old Smokey Mountain evangelist, Vance Havner. He tells of a granddad taking his grandson fishing. While the boy is intent on watching his fishing line, grandfather catches a bumble bee and with tweezers removes the bees stinger. Then as an object lesson he puts the harmless bee down into the back of the boys shirt. Papa, whyd you do this to me, Im gonna get stung! cried the little fellow. Calmly grandfather explained a spiritual reality; for those who trust in Jesus, deaths sting has been removed. Oh yes, the older man explained, death will buzz around and try to frighten you but there need be no fear of it, because for those who trust that Jesus died on the cross to forgive their sins, they are free from the fear of death.
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There's no reason to fear death when you believe in Jesus - Franklin News Post
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