480,000 deaths - each year...

Death  comes soon enough as it is...



It truly is pointless to go out of your way looking for it...

Click above to act now - and end one of its agents: 
breast cancer 
- the unseen killer -

The fight against breast cancer has had many champions and many detractors as well. 40,000 women die of breast cancer each and every year - so every action we can take in order to fight it is invaluable. As devastating as breast cancer is, though, smoking is 11 times worse, as it kills nearly 440,000 Americans A YEAR according to some figures. Some sources claim that there are two vaccines being developed right now - vaccines that could block nicotine from ever reaching the brain. That could cull the numbers of the addicted, but smoking attacks other body parts - not the brain. Everything happens in the brain though - so I hope we will all make the right choices, here and now: click here to stop breast cancer and NEVER smoke again! For it would be folly not to choose the right courses of action, when faced with such astronomical numbers of demises, each year...
 Death comes soon enough for our mortal shells; there is no need to run after it!

See - we can help, actually make a difference.
Aye, even at our desks...
Even here...!
We may croak right where we sit too, of course...

DO NOT FEAR DEATH, THOUGH
It may come for each one of us -
but we shall never fear it!
For there is One who has vanquished Death for us

Simply have trust about that -
have trust
in The Word
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King James Bible

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. 8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: 14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: 17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. 18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? 31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. 33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: 37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: 43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for asmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

AMEN!
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Death... Death, Everywhere

In all of media and around the world - that is! And it shouldn't be surprising to anyone; for it is the only certainty in this life. And yet... And yet... It is trivialized. It is rendered meaningless, in a myriad of ways: atheists claim there is NOTHING beyond, after all. And in mass, popular entertainment -such as the immensely profitable Marvel films- it is truly devoid of meaning. Because each and every dead character *of significance* will cheat death and come back, oftentimes even better off for it, rendering death as a mere time off in limbo... and not the Transition with a capital ''T'' that it truly is. And imagine this: Marvel will even do this when one of their most significant of all contributors -Stan Lee- has passed on - their most brainless fans were found making fun of the demise by suggesting that he, too, will return in the same fashion each and every single one of those super-heroes did before and will do again in the very near-future (in that pestiferous ''Infinity War'' of theirs; nincompoops of little importance, *that* is *not* the war that could be deemed as such - the only one of that magnitude has got Angels, Demons and the Son of God Himself as the main protagonists. No idiots in spandex need apply there! But that is another story...) 

MARVEL, you see, suffers from a serious lack of IMAGINATION. Albert Einstein said it best: IMAGINATION -true, luminous imagination- IS GREATER THAN KNOWLEDGE. And, poor Marvel Zombies - they have got none of that. They are dum-dums, at best. Their idea of an ''imaginative, fun ride'' is very formulaic, redundant, hackneyed recycled ideas rephrased again and again - ad nauseam. It made sense - in Stan Lee's days, especially, since his basic job description was the same as any other guy in print back then - it was to sell copy. But in his latter days, Stan had moved from New York to Hollywood - he saw himself as movie mogul, at the ripe old age of 95. And neither he nor anyone else at Marvel or Disney have ever learned otherwise... 

Instead of selling copy, they are selling movie tickets. 

DEATH is even presented poorly, extremely poorly: a most illogical entity that is, on top of being inept and irrelevant, not consistent one iota. That wretched hull of an empty shell of a ''villain'' called ''THANOS'' (not even the true name it should have: ''THANATOS'' means death in Greek - and guess what, it is DC that has it. They misused it, too - but that is another story... too!) has obtained unlimited power in their latest waste of celluloid they call ''a good movie'' - and what does the moron do with that? He can snap his fingers and have anyone he wants blink out of existence - yet he leaves several of the most powerful foes he has alive, thriving (though shaking in their booties) and plotting revenge! (Well, of course they are: they didn't steal the name ''Avengers'' from Emma Peel, John Steed, Cathy Gale, Tara King and ITC for nothing, you know!)  

R.I.P. Patrick MacNee a.k.a. John Steed... 

Dame Diana Rigg is still with us, in the land of the Living... 

But for how much longer...?

Everyone knows, in addition to this, that most everyone who ''died'' in the last installment will be back - hell, no one in their right mind would leave a billion dollar franchise player simply vanish into nothingness! Billion-dollar franchise for all the wrong, purely circumstantial reasons, of course... You know who you are: Black Panther! The Black Panther movement may have really died - but the character sucking out tons of money from an delusional community will never die - he won't be allowed to. If Chadwick Boseman kicks the bucket anytime soon, recasting will keep the whole thing afloat; you can be damn sure of it. 

But back to DEATH here... 

If its devoted champion - that would be the big dud; ''Thanos'' - was any tiny bit good at what he strives to do and be, he would have gone about it logically: as the Grim Reaper(-ess?) itself would have or should have! At one snap of the fingers, wiped off the face of the Earth would all the improbable, illogical, all-around impossible behemoths conjured up by Stan and his many cohorts through the years - while invoking all manners of source materials that they merrily pilfered for their own potential gain, advantage and alleged "creative venture" that begat the abomination called "Marvel" now... In other words, that "Thanos" troglodyte would take out all the Hulks, Thors, Iron Men around - leaving only a Black Widow, a malinger Hawkeye and, perhaps, an American Captain out there; all of which can put up some kind of a fight (out of desperation) but, obviously, none are a real threat to any alleged "cosmic" threat...!  (Especially one backed up by DEATH ITSELF - but then again, one has got to be logical about it! And it is not sure that Marvel ever will be - ever!) 

This is what an accurate, cunning, calculating DEATH entity would have done - or any of its most, ah, intimate associates would have vied to accomplish, too, in order to impress the supposed DEATH MISTRESS...! Taking out 50% of them, but not just any 50% - the top 50%... duh! But that is not what we saw in that wretched piece of cinematography crap - is it now? Ultimately, it does not even matter here, as none of them stay dead in the blasted "Marvel Universe" - they won't risk skipping the chance to milk it as long and as much as it can possibly be milked - in any case!

In the real world, just this past year, there were so many big names that bit the dust - it wasn't just Stan Lee! 2018 was a real massacre --- but then, so was 2017... and 2016... and 2015...

Marvel doesn't have the accurate version of DEATH, of course - DC does! For this intent and purpose (a hot/goth girrrlfriend that a big goof is bent on impressing - big time!) it is definitely DC's version that needs to be employed: DC's or Vertigo's, whichever you prefer. (Vertigo is a mere imprint used, once upon a time, to section the "DC Universe" in pre-Multiverse daze... er, days. Don't ask.) This... odd twist on a Death entity that suddenly becomes quite... shapely and seductive -on a permanent basis- rather than boney and outright creepy is not (never) to be confused with Lady Death from the appropriately defunct Chaos/Coffin Comics (L.D who was the object of a cinematic treatment too - in 2004 - albeit a piece of animation only but one that featured James Faulkner VI in a supporting voiceover role; not to be confused with the James Faulkner who was Paul, Apostle of Christ most recently...! Furthermore, L.D -seen in all her deathly splendor, below- is also not to be confused with Lady Deathstrike - a Marvel - just like The Terminator is never to be confused with Deathstroke The Terminator... a DC - duh.) 

...this, factually, throwaway character born in the fiery pits of hell 

as much as in the feverish imagination of its supposed creator- was ranked 

39th on the Comics Buyer's Guide's 100 Sexiest Women In Comics list. 

That was... a number of years ago! 

And yet - this is still not the best DEATH around! 

(Believe it or not - I know; with all that curvaceous glitz, it is hard to believe... I know, I know! Have you checked out the Marvel Deathstrike, though? That'll will have the effect of the cold shower you need... dweebs! And then you can resume reading on...!) 

Because the only accurate representation of DEATH to be found anywhere is that of the Angel of Death... and that of the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse... and that is to be found in the pages of only one book - The Good Book... The Holy Bible.

This DEATH doesn't mess around - if you're gone, you are out of there --- which is here, this realm, this plane of existence... for good!!! No coming back - no fancy return: you get to MOVE ON instead... depart this dimension, ascend or descend (to each his own) until Kingdom Come - in all likelihood. Hence the terms "goner" and "departed" and "dead" dammit --- !!! Why is it such a hard, difficult concept to grasp by the idiots penning those garbage throwaway-stories-that-make-no-sense for this sub-genre that has taken over completely in creatively-bankrupt Tinseltown... huh?!? 

And as we stand on the cusp of a new year once again - as those Marvel Zombies watch on, bewildered, as the very DC Aquaman rules the box-office like no Black Panther, none of their Avengers and certainly no mutie of theirs has ever done...  BEHOLD, BRAIN DEAD: DEATH IS EVER NEARER TO YOUR DWELLING! 
Your days are ever more so numbered - and you know it! TIME IS SHORT; make the most of what little time there is left! DEATH stands ready, with its scythe - it is flanked by Pestilence... War... Famine, its fellow Horsemen (in most, classic interpretations, anyway!) --- not by any "Thanoses" or "Evil Ernies" or mutant rebels without much of a cause really...

MAY YOU MAKE THE MOST 

OF THIS NEW YEAR --- 

AND AVOID GETTING 

RUN OVER BY A CAR!

You want to be a 

Luminous Pedestrian 

--- don't you? 

Reflections On Separation...

When the time comes - suddenly and without warning; or even with warning but all too soon - and it is always too soon, no matter what the circumstances are... When that loved one departs and leaves you behind - lest it is the other way around... What, then?

For those who depart - there is but discovery and bliss; diminished by sorrow, certainly at first - for they did not want to leave like that, abandon their loved ones so soon... so brutally, sometimes.  But then they realize that it is all as it should be - that there is Order in the Chaos. And they let themselves go with it - going with the cosmic flow that will take them back where the life energy that animates them originated from.

For there is no death to energy - you know that, right? Science, even that breed that aims to disprove and discredit other fields of knowledge, cannot deny this: energy displaces itself, but never dissipates entirely - not even at the time of death. Rigor Mortis strickens the corpse as its energy leaves - but it is leaving the vessel, for parts unknown. It is not dissolving into thin air - no.

And so freed from the mortal coil, the energy - the spirit, the soul; call it what you will - it rises and reaches out for the Great Beyond - for the Cosmos Beckons!

But what of those who remain? Remaining "alive" in the sense that we know - here, in the material world.  What of those, then - what of us?

We blog, to make sense of it? We meditate, we read, we study, we talk about it - talking helps the grieving process and the healing one as well...

Deaths come in threes, they say: back-to-back-to-back we lost trios recently - way too soon.

"Avicii" dies so young, at 28 --- days later, it's Bob Dorough who follows through, at 94. In-between the two extremes, the music world lost Yvonne Staples - does anyone even remember her --- hmm? Ultimately, it does not even matter indeed: these three and many others like them are all off to play beautiful music --- in the afterlife! We imagine and presume, of course...

In the "pillars and foundations of our little worlds" category, Barbara Bush passed away, leaving the Bush Clan in disarray - she was certifiably the glue that held it all together, the true leader of that family - a fact that was confirmed by the priest presiding at the ceremony during his eulogy for her...

On the very same day, another funeral for another lady who held her family together through it all --- my favorite aunt, Tia Margarida. Her obituary, written by my dearest cousin, states all that - and more. She -my aunt- was inestimable and her loss is huge for the entire clan as well; alas, the time had come. The hour had been set --- so it is...

Bruno Sammartino completed this trifecta for the Reaper here --- he was, aside from the Hogans and the Flairs of his business, the consummate wrestling professional that held the McMahon Circus together during the couple of decades that preceded the "big TV era" which paved the way for pay-per-view extravaganza, the huge money there was to be made there and all that...

And, ironically enough, I was just wondering, the other day, howcome his was one of the very few action figures that I had left from that era, still on display in my study, somehow...

... along with Bruno, I have Bobby --- a figure to the likeness of one 

Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, 

who also passed away not so long ago... 

Third one left from the collection: Terry Funk. 

He still lives. He was left behind... 

Does he wonder why...?  What do you think?

I really doubt that the new employees of that circus there were truly all teary-eyed like that at the sad announcement of Mr. Sammartino's passing --- I wouldn't really know, of course, as I no longer follow their product, but I highly doubt the veracity of this image right here:

Barbara Bush and Tia Margarida passed away roughly at the same age - but Queen Elizabeth II remains to celebrate her 92nd birthday - and her big royal anniversary is coming up too, celebrated by a new stamp from her, ah, other subjects - in Canada!  (She is still the Queen of Canada - don't you forget it. Canada Post does not...)

Never mind the fact that they appear to be off by one year --- 

the crux of the question here is... when will it end? 

The reign... the title... the life? 

The British have prepared for this for decades - 

as they saw Portugal slay their royals, 

others come and go, accessing their respective crowns 

in various European countries with monarchy still, 

just like the soon-to-be fragmented again 

"United Kingdom" --- as nothing is forever. 

Prince Charles was supposed to inherit the throne 

in the Queen's living years... 

That will not happen now - it was never meant to be. 

What will it be when the time comes... there? 

Each separation brings back the specter of death into our lives --- the daily routine becomes that much more difficult to face as it all takes a semblance of futility all of a sudden; as in "why even bother, we're not going to be around to enjoy the fruits of our efforts anyway!"

We fail to see any sense in any of it, especially when we are in the thick of things --- going through all the emotions, that roller-coaster ride of upheavals, torment and decisions to be hastily made, sometimes - with the consequences looming already right ahead of you...

But life is worth the living; worth the trials and tribulations all on their own merit --- as they are adventures setting us up for the bigger one - out there!  Whether you don't believe in the afterlife or do, it matters not; see, your life energy will move on, whether you think it does or does not. You will be forced to embark upon this "Great Beyond Adventure" whether you believe or do not! And that is the most beautiful part of it all: whether you leave with many points unresolved or not, all will be said and dealt with --- in due time. And your time being set - both here as beyond - as the life energy that animates you is part of a Greater Whole which regulates the entire known and unknown Universe... you cannot escape it. And, as the author of a not-so famous book said, choosing that as the tile of his book... You Cannot Die. 

You do not believe me? That's okay. 

Angels will tell you --- once you cross over, 

into their territory...!

Until then, one of them 

has the exact same message for you 

as she always does...

Those who have died - are not dead. 

And we are alive today - cannot die --- ever! 

Whether it is a good thing 

or a bad one for us 

remains to be seen; 

it is different 

for each and every one of us... 

See you 

in the afterlife!

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DEATH... IS NOT THE END

This blog is meritorious 

of a formal introduction... 

(see, also the top three posts pinned on top 

as you access deathtodeath.blogspot.ca!)

 SO HERE IT IS! 

With this blog, the TLB Prime Network 

makes a further statement: 

one already made with The Truth 

and luminous praising 

but, here, we make it so 

that it hopefully reaches out 

to all the non-believers out there...

And this one goes out to 

all the DEAD, also --- 

as they know the truth now! 

WITHOUT THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT!

The dead - real or fictitious 

(the latter being extremely helpful, at times, 

in illustrating the points we have to have 

coming across here...)

For Today... 

We celebrate the Birth 

of Life --- 

LIFE ETERNAL! 

He Who Vanquished Death 

And Is The Way 

To Life Everlasting! 

Death no longer holds sway 

on any True Believer 

(and we don't mean you, Stan Lee 

and all your Marvel Zombies...)

Thus, verily we can proclaim... 

 DEATH... TO DEATH! 

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