Dayum
dying people wan na just keep yapping... shut»em up right... we all know they'll have plenty of time to chat their little mouths off after they're gone... now pay attention to me and stop your interrupting... amen.
I think there is this fallacy that
dying people all want to confess their sins and ask god for forgiveness.
I agree with so many in that I have never given much consideration to what
a dying person wants to talk about.
Why on Earth would
a dying person want to listen to the psychotic ramblings of a schizophrenic, talking about something like a god?
If
the dying person wants to talk to a chaplain and seems to want to talk about a particular subject, such as his family, why should the chaplain attempt to force him to discuss something else?
Finally, someone who read the article and had enough insight to understand the author / / listened / / to what
the dying person wanted to discuss.
Not exact matches
He said most
people's relationship to
dying is like a Woody Allen joke: «I'm not afraid of death; I just don't
want to be there when it happens.»
Even
people who
want to go to heaven don't
want to
die to get there.
Melinda Gates, whose job quite literally entails saving the world, said it well: «On the day I
die, I
want people to think that I was a great mom and a great family member and a great friend.
Some Republican lawmakers
want to preserve bulk collection until 2017, citing the Nov. 13 Paris attacks in which 130
people died.
(That said, many
people agreed that they
want email to
die and for something else to replace it.
Students, entrepreneurs, reporters and many other
people want to know how many new businesses live and
die.
While the legendary CEO - fixer Bill Campbell recently
died, sources said that Kalanick
wants to reach out to a number of other CEOs for guidance, including
people like Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri.
For example, during the U.S. campaign season, you had
people on the extreme right who
wanted to discredit Hillary Clinton on the basis of her health, so you saw titles such as, «Is Hillary Clinton
Dying?
Do you think that, as a
person is
dying, they
want to discuss whether or not they believe in God, Jesus, or eternal life?
A
dying person has the right to talk about what they
want.
This was an incredibly good article about what
people really
want to talk about when they are
dying.
All of us have forgiveness, The article was about what
people want to talk about when they are
dying, not some last moment attempt to «save» someone.
If I was ever
dying in a hospital, the last
person I'd
want to see is a closed, cold Harvard professor who is unable to listen.
You are the
person that would see a murdered man dead on the ground with gunshots and stabwounds and say he
died from natural causes, b / c thats what you
wan na believe.
To paraphrase him, I'd say: «That if I was ever sick in the hospital, if I was ever
dying, that the last
person I would ever
want to see is some Harvard Divinity School professor
wanting to talk to me about faith or the depth of his spiritual life.»
I have been an ICU Nurse for many years,
people who
die are not as interested in religion as their families are...
people even near death are often just in the moment and just
want to be comfortable
dave, what makes you think you've got some sort of inside track as to what a
dying person needs or
wants?
If I were lying in a bed
dying, my family would be the thing I
want to talk about, to make sure that I can make a stranger understand my love for them and hopefully keep them alive in one more
person.
Also, if you don't
want to «fall for a scam» that's ok, Christ didn't go begging
people to beleive in Him (guy who
wanted to bury his dad, rich man, etc.), but I think (getting back to the article) that it's important if we are in the position of Chaplaincy then we should share the good news of Christ focusing on His love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ
died for us.
She talks more about love: giving it, receiving it, lacking it,
wanting it — thus the name of the article is «What
people talk about before they
die.»
Do
people really
want some religious fraudster holding their hand as thy are
dying?
Dying people often say, «I
want to go home.»
Twenty years in the ER — She is absolutely right about what most
people need /
want to do as they
die.
Why not accept the fact that
people who were
dying merely
wanted to express their love or their feelings of melancholy for the lack thereof — and just leave it at that?
people probably don't like to talk about God when they're
dying because they
want to spend their remaining time talking about something more important.
Why do
people want to talk about their family instead of God when they
die?
People die every day in wars that are happening because people canâ $ ™ t agree on who or what God is, and what he
People die every day in wars that are happening because
people canâ $ ™ t agree on who or what God is, and what he
people canâ $ ™ t agree on who or what God is, and what he
wants.
In fact, I have never encountered a
dying person who
wanted to say that much.
And if the
person doesn't
want that guidance who in the world do you think you are to demand that a chaplain force it on the
dying?
People are too conceited to
want to believe that when they
die, they cease to exist, so viola, in their pea brains God exists to satisfy their own sense of self importance through an afterlife and continued existence beyond life.
I'm sure that
dying people who wish to talk
want some pompous jerk forcing them to pray.
Dr Peter Saunders, who is part of the group Care Not Killing, also said most
people don't
want the right to
die, symbolised in the fact all of the British regional governments had rejected the motion in the past.
I can't believe what I «m reading, yes I believe when you you are
dying, you
want your family and all the
people you have loved to be near and help you through this difficult time.
You guys are like little kids: waah, I do nt
want to... waah., the towers were attacked,
people died and you guys are upset because of how we grieve and pay tribute to lost ones with a symbol of our beliefs and strengths.
you
want to display the christian cross at a site where
people of many faiths
died, then be willing to display each of those religious icons as well.
Almost as irrational as someone claiming a
person that
died a couple of thousand years ago is gonna come back cause he
wants to get laid... lol..
Christ
died and rose again... the world will say «so what» if we don't
die ourself as church and
want to act «as if» we are resurrected
people, but never
die as church
If you were a Jewish
person and you heard that you neighbor got baptized, you would
want to know what they were «
dying» to.
So, an unstable
person is more likely to
want to
die, rather than keep on living.
I've always disagreed, and think that even if there is a heaven, I'll be there when I
die, because any actual god worth having doesn't need or
want your belief, and wouldn't keep a good
person to their core out of heaven... let alone burn and suffer for eternity in hell.
Ok but can god take away a
person from hell and put him in heaven and if god loves us so much then why he doesn't destroy satun or put him in prison forever and why doesn't he tells the holy spirit to forgive whatever any
person says just like him and Jesus i
want to know thst but i noticed in all your replies except one that you were telling me everything i was asking except this in short if i say «he allows us to hate him» and i also
want to know that if a
person is sent in hell for his sins then will he go back to heaven after completing his punishment or stay there forever and also will any
person who have commited the unforgivable sin one day be freed and allowed to go to heven or be reborn on Earth and if god has infinite love for us why don't he force us to belive in Jesus just before
dying and then as he goes to heven show Jesus to him and then give him a rebirth as soon as his turn comes and then countinue this becaude going to heaven would be better much more than going to hell especialy for those who have commited the unforgivable sin
«I don't
want to say necessarily that nothing applies, but understanding Christ as a
person and His very real experience of
dying through capital punishment should give us a little bit more pause and reflection to think, what does it mean in the totality of the Gospel?
But what do you do when a
person tells you she has killed somebody, that she hated some woman so much she
wanted her baby to
die — and then the baby
dies.
If it is contended that
people go to Hell because God elects them to Hell, then I absolutely believe that Calvinism is antithetical to Scripture because the Bible tells that God
wants all to be saved, that Jesus
died for all
people, and that God wills the good, and that Hell is not good.