Sentences with phrase «think about the death of»

As he wrote Underground Airlines — which takes the form of a mystery novel, with Victor a sort of hard - boiled detective — he was thinking about the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and numerous other victims of racially motivated violence.

Nobody likes to think about the death of a loved one and the financial benefit that may come with it.

«Unfortunately, many pet owners avoid thinking about the death of their pet until they are forced to make a decision about euthanasia, often with little to no forethought.

Not exact matches

That is, we all accept, in theory, that no one lives forever, while avoiding thinking about the prospect of our own deaths.

Still, it's worth taking this time to look at Thiel's rise to fame in the tech capital of the world — a saga that includes his effort to stop aging and death, his controversial thoughts about college, and his war with the media:

«Because the chance of death is really quite small at the ages where people would begin to think about buying life insurance, delaying from age 25 to 30 wouldn't raise the rate a lot,» he said.

It's something most people don't like to think about, but in the event of your death, an unpaid business loan can affect your family.

Though the Canadian Business of the 1930s covered many topics that wouldn't seem out of place in the 21st century — rising taxes, truth in advertising, the imminent death of the airline industry — it also ran many stories the editors of 2013 likely would never touch («The story of safety glass») or would at least think twice about («The «social» diseases and business: what is syphilis costing Canada?»).

Their thoughts need to be about meaningful policy changes that could prevent another murder, another death, another heartbreaking act of violence.

From the remote mountain redoubt where he is believed to be hiding, surrounded at all times by a battery of gunmen, Chapo oversees a logistical network that is as sophisticated, in some ways, as that of Amazon or U.P.S. — doubly sophisticated, when you think about it, because traffickers must move both their product and their profits in secret, and constantly maneuver to avoid death or arrest.

If one takes a few minutes to really think about the medium that we accept as money today, fiat currencies made out of cotton fiber backed by nothing except militaries, murder, death, and threats of murder and death, then one should easily conclude that fiat currencies literally have no intrinsic worth.

As someone who has sat by the death bed of a sister, father and mother, I full heartily agree that those looking into the thin veil that separates the living and dead, think about their loved ones not God.

Almost 20 years ago I had an illness that left me, literally on death's door, and at the time I don't recall thinking about my spiritual beliefs — all of my thoughts were indeed on my friends and family.

Laqueur is right, I think, about the mendacity stains on the antismoking crusade, and about the link with the denial of death.

In that time, we talked about death, joked about how her age finally caught her (as the previous week she had told me she thought it was starting to catch up to her) and then she told me she was afraid for the night to come because she knew it would be her last and she was afraid of being alone.

Near - death studies are about the best we have and anecdotally I think that many people do report «conscious» experience whether that's due to anoxia or otherwise there is no substantial evidence suggesting the absence of «consciousness.»

It's my death, and I'll think about what I want to, be it family, friends, God, or an empty void marking the end to having to listen to all of the BS crammed down my throat from the living.

When someone is dying of Natural death has enough time to think about on unfulfilled dreams or desires and reviewing what he / she has done with their lives then anguish or pleasure of fulfillment will be present in every second of the rest of their lives.

Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's love, character and nature, the death of Jesus and Salvation.

So, I think that the Christians that hold protest vigils outside of the prisons when a criminal is about to be put to death, is an example of Christians using the «cast the first stone» lesson.

Through them all we learn finally what Sukhanov thinks must be the meaning of his life: «And it was only after twenty - three years of mute crawling through the mud» only after he had felt the smooth taste of betrayal on his lips and the chilly weight of thirty pieces of silver in his sweaty palm, only after he had learned about the slow fattening of the soul, the anguish of wasted chances, the pain of love slipping away, the soft, horrifying slide into death» yes, it was only then that the elixir of life was granted to him and his resurrection assured.»

If you remember Ted Kennedy, the man responsible for the death of Mary Joe Kopechne, as the «Lion of the Senate» and a legitimate participant in public life (and there are quite a few Republicans on that list), you should think again before complaining about how far politics has fallen now.

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

believer fred, i think you said something about clinging to death helplessly, and depriving a child of the light... in different words.

No one experiences and thinks about death like an atheist, and it can be a scary concept for a lot of people.

The concept of sacrifice and death so completely alien to me I've been thinking about this quite a bit lately.

Right now I am thinking about the willing death of Jesus.

We need not be surprised, therefore, that the biblical words of death and resurrection occur quite readily to the pastor in thinking about the care of souls.

People think they have «heard it all» about the death and resurrection of Jesus, but I think we have not even scratched the surface...

Through that sequence of emails, I show how my thinking has changed about the death and resurrection of Jesus.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

In this episode of the One Verse Podcast, I am going to invite you to start thinking about death differently than the way most people think about it.

If Lutherans really believe what their theology says about Word and Sacrament, then I think they would be equally passionate about engaging other Christians: When Christians understand what Christ offers in the sacraments, that understanding, and what is actually received, changes their lives because they come into direct contact with the death and new life of Jesus.

The Apostle Paul also talked about signs of the End Times - not to establish a calendar, but rather to comfort members of the church who thought death would deprive them of the opportunity to see Jesus» Second Coming.

To learn more about how my thinking has changed, sign up at the bottom of this page to receive my emails about the death and resurrection of Jesus.

I thought about backing out, but decided that nothing short of death could save me at that late hour.

Instead of aiming to ease and extend the person's life, they begin to think about identifying the moment that the patient has passed the legal threshold of death.

To think about our death means also, of course, to think about our life — what it means to be a human being, what sort of nature and life we share.

Yet when most people are reading their Bibles (and they have their spiritual - colored glasses on), and read about some sort of sin that brings death, they put a spiritual twist on it, and think it is referring to spiritual death, or losing your eternal life, or something like that.

Finally, it may be useful to ponder whether thinking about death from the perspective of our nature as finite and free can give us guidance about how we ought to live as we grow older.

But for Christians who think this consitutes «persecution», I might suggest you read more about the lives and deaths of the saints of old, or the plight of Christians in China and many countries even today.

It's also a time to consider one's thoughts and desires for end of life, even if it might feel like it is too early to be thinking about death.

After an inmate on death row confesses details about murders, rapes and a lifetime of crime — «You know, the heavy stuff» — the chaplain responds: «Have any impure thoughts?

The first step is «to commit ourselves to the possibility and the desirability of attempting to think through (at least in a rudimentary way) our position on some aspects of the ultimate questions about life, death, and reality.»

Was thinking of Stalin's quote about death.

Furthermore, if we recall that to be human is to be social, so that our relationship with others is integral to and largely constitutive of our own identity, then our thought about survival of death must be very different from the highly individualistic view so popular in the past.

And when he was thinking about human existence itself, he was intent upon saying that a whole human person was compounded of body as well as of soul; in the end, he said, the two would be reunited after the separation which death had brought about.

But one thing we may say with reasonable certainty: quite apart from the question of time authenticity or the verbal accuracy of this or that reported saying, the idea of new life through death, of victory coming out of defeat, is an inseparable part of the thought of Jesus about his destiny.

It makes us sound ignorant and really we should be thinking about all of those who are lost their live in the incident or serving as troops I'm not saying that Osama's death is bad, because personally I am quite happy about this, but we didn't act the right way about his death.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.