\u201d \u2026 power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill \u2026 (and) by these three was the third part of men killed \u2026 \u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Rev. 6:8; 9:18<\/i><\/p>\n
980<\/b> Total Deaths In World<\/b><\/p>\n
The number of deaths in the world may fluctuate widely from one year to the next. A rough estimate of annual deaths is 60,000,000 or about 2 every second. <\/p>\n
About two-thirds of these deaths are in Asia, a little less than one-sixth in Europe, about one-tenth in Africa, and one-twelfth in the Western Hemisphere. <\/p>\n
In comparison, there are about 3 births every second, as there are between 100 and 115 million babies every year. About three- fifths of the births are in Asia, one eight each in Europe and in the Americas, and one-tenth in Africa. <\/p>\n
981<\/b> Person\u2019s Death Ages<\/b><\/p>\n
At what year of age is the number of deaths greater? <\/p>\n
According to insurance company averages, the number of deaths is greatest in the first year after birth. In 1961, there were 107,965 infant deaths reported in the United States. This was more than the number for each age from 1 through 55 years. A secondary peak in the number of deaths occurs near age 77. <\/p>\n
982<\/b> Noah\u2019s Flood<\/b><\/p>\n
Population statistics indicate that nearly 3 billion people may have lived on the earth at the time of Noah\u2019s Flood. This means that 3 billion were killed by God\u2019s judgment at the Flood. <\/p>\n
983<\/b> Dying Is Cheaper? <\/b><\/p>\n
An item from the United Press International<\/i> in Cincinnati: Despite the high cost of living, it\u2019s still a bargain to die. <\/p>\n
The overall cost of living rose 41.3 percent in the past 10 years, while the \u2019cost of dying\u2019 increased only 32.1 percent. <\/p>\n
984<\/b> Major Options After Death<\/b><\/p>\n
The major options for a person contemplating death and concerned with his body:<\/p>\n
(1) Reserve a cemetery lot for himself;<\/p>\n
(2) Be cremated and reduced right away to ashes;<\/p>\n
(3) Give his body to science for research after death; or<\/p>\n
(4) Make an appointment to be frozen and stored in a cryotorium, until science finds a cure for his illness, defrosts the body, hopefully<\/i> restores life, and cures his disease. <\/p>\n
985<\/b> Brazil \u201cRaising The Dead\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
In Brazil, an architect has designed a 39-story skyscraper cemetery. It has \u201coccupancy\u201d for 21,000 tombs, with eventual full capacity of 147,000. It has a heliport, so that bodies can be flown in quickly. There are also two churches and 21 chapels, with comfortable beds for grieving friends. A soothing but somber background music is piped in 24 hours a day. This was to help solve Brazil\u2019s growing burial problem. <\/p>\n
986<\/b> Running Out Of Space<\/b><\/p>\n
Great Britain became the first country in the world to have more cremations than burials. In Japan, it is said, graveyards are so crowded that only members of the imperial family are assured a resting place. West Berlin has had at least a six-week waiting period for burial. In Brazil, a 12-story \u201ccarneiro\u201d has been built and there is a long-standing reservation. <\/p>\n
Arlington National Cemetery is so crowded that officials are working on a columbarium to store 50,000 urns of ashes. Governments world-wide are worried that if people continue to die, soon no more places would be found to bury them. <\/p>\n
987<\/b> World\u2019s Largest Cemetery<\/b><\/p>\n
Russia has the world\u2019s largest cemetery. In Leningrad, there is a burial site which contains over 500,000 victims of the German army\u2019s seige of 1941\u201342. <\/p>\n
988<\/b> Grave With A Window<\/b><\/p>\n
A Turkish watch repairer, All Yucel, has built himself a special grave which has an eight-inch window on top. He plans to install a push-button electric alarm bell inside the grave. If he is buried alive by mistake, he can push the button to call the cemetery\u2019s guard room. <\/p>\n
He also plans to have an electric light burning inside his grave for one week after his burial. At the week\u2019s end the cemetery guards will check to see if he is really dead and put out the light. <\/p>\n
\u2014James C. Hefley<\/p>\n
989<\/b> A Stake Through His Heart<\/b><\/p>\n
When Herald West died, his doctor drove a stake through his heart to make sure he was dead. When he was buried, they did not nail his coffin shut in case he was not dead. West was no vampire. He was just a cautious banker who feared to be buried alive. <\/p>\n
When West died at 90, he left a will directing that \u201cmy coffin shall not be screwed down and that a surgeon be instructed to pierce my heart with a steel or other instrument to make certain death has occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
His family physician, Dr. Eric Kerr, said: \u201cI did what Mr. West wanted, but it was the first request of that sort I have ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kerr said West, a London bank manager, wanted to be certain he would be dead when he went to his grave, but if by chance he was not, he wanted a means of escape. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was very meticulous in his habits as a bank manager,\u201d the doctor said, \u201cbut this did not seem to be overdoing it. Many people have fears of this sort.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014United Press International<\/p>\n
990<\/b> Lincoln\u2019s Body Moved 17 Times<\/b><\/p>\n
Following the burial of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, his casket was moved 17 times, chiefly to prevent its being stolen and held for ransom. Six men nearly succeeded once, on a night in 1876, but they were surprised and frightened away by the custodian when leaving the tomb with the body. Consequently, it was hidden under a pile of a scrap lumber in the cellar during the next two years. Since 1901, the casket has been locked in a steel cage and buried in solid cement ten feet below the floor of the mausoleum in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. <\/p>\n
\u2014Freling Foster<\/p>\n
991<\/b> The One-Year Stench<\/b><\/p>\n
The corpse of \u201c87-year-old James Bryce of Oshawa, Ontario, lay in his bedroom for over a year while his 62-year-old son lived in the same house. The son, Douglas, told police his father died and he could not bear to part with his father after death, and he didn\u2019t have money to bury him.\u201d The father\u2019s body was found \u201clying in bed in a stench-filled room.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Free Press<\/i><\/p>\n
992<\/b> Long Mourning Over Church Bells<\/b><\/p>\n
In mourning over the death of King Louis XV, the church bells of the Cathedral of Toul, France, were rung continuously 40 days and nights. The result: the vibrations so weakened the bell-tower that the tower swayed\u2014and the bells continued to ring\u2014for 20 years and 7 months. <\/p>\n
993<\/b> Tennyson\u2019s Kind Memories<\/b><\/p>\n
Alfred Tennyson suffered a tremendous emotional shock in the death of his close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam. In his \u201cBreak, Break, Break,\u201d he meditates on his loss as he sits by the seashore. The fisherman\u2019s children are laughing and playing, the sailor boy sings in his boat, the stately ships sail away, but the poet thinks, \u201cOh, for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!\u201d<\/p>\n
994<\/b> Forest Lawn Memorial Park<\/b><\/p>\n
The late Hubert Eaton became a millionaire by softening the hardness of death in the world\u2019s most famous burying ground\u2014Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Here the bodies of many movie stars and other famous people lie surrounded by rolling lawns, sparkling fountains, and marble statuaries. <\/p>\n
The famous mortician admitted he wanted \u201cto erase all signs of mourning.\u201d For him and his employees, death became \u201cleave-taking\u201d; a corpse \u201cthe loved one,\u201d who was treated by skilled cosmetologist in a luxuriously furnished \u201cslumber\u201d room. <\/p>\n
995<\/b> \u201cSo Sorry \u2026 \u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
After the usual funeral music, opening the \u201cObituary Column of the Air\u201d on WATA, Boone, N. C., the announcer said: \u201cWe\u2019re sorry to report there were no deaths in Watauga County during the past 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
996<\/b> Gandhi: \u201cAll About Is Darkness\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
Some fifteen years before Gandhi\u2019s death, he wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cI must tell you in all humility that Hinduism, as I know it, entirely satisfies my soul, fills my whole being, and I find a solace in the Bhagavad and Upainshads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just before his death, Ghandi wrote: \u201cMy days are numbered. I am not likely to live very long\u2014perhaps a year or a little more. For the first time in fifty years I find myself in the slough of despond. All about me is darkness; I am praying for light.\u201d<\/p>\n
997<\/b> To Cry Or Not To Cry<\/b><\/p>\n
Once upon a time, Duke Ching of Ch\u2019i was rambling about on the Mount of Niu. When he saw the beautiful scenery in the north where his country lies, tears fell from his eyes, and with a sob, he said, \u201cHow beautiful are our fruitful plains, and our rippling rills. But our lives are as short as the water in the river that passes by.\u201d After he spoke, he wailed aloud. <\/p>\n
Ai-K\u2019ung and Liang-Ch\u2019iu-Chu wept with him. But Yen-Tzu laughed alone by the side. As Duke Ching wiped the tears from his eyes, he asked, \u201cWe are all weeping here, why is it that you are laughing?\u201d<\/p>\n
Yen-Tzu said, \u201cIt is your meaningless mourning I am laughing at. If the length of men\u2019s lives were not so short, the previous rulers would not have died yet, how then, would it be possible for you to be the Prince of Ch\u2019i?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Yen-Tzu Ch\u2019un Ch\u2019iu<\/i><\/p>\n
998<\/b> Captain\u2019s Skin As Drumheads<\/b><\/p>\n
Count Ziska, the brave Bohemian captain, commanded, that, after death, his body should be flayed, and the skin be made into drum-heads to send dismay into the hearts of their enemies when his followers went out to battle. <\/p>\n
999<\/b> Human Soul Weighs 21 Grams<\/b><\/p>\n
A Swedish doctor in a new book says he discovered the human soul weighs 21 grams. He placed beds of terminal patients on sensitive scales and saw the needle drop when the patients died, he says. <\/p>\n
\u2014Pastor\u2019s Manual<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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