November and Death..!
There’s a morbid mood all around, with most newspapers talking only about 26/11 and the carnage at the Taj last year. Somehow talk of death is very depressing, so today without taking away from the seriousness of the tragedy I’m going to try and move your hearts and minds away from the gravity of death into some lighthearted banter on the same subject:
Three friends die in a car crash and find themselves up before a jury about the life they lived on earth, “Before we decide what to do with you,” says the chief juror, “We want to ask you three a question, “ When you are lying dead and friends and relatives are mourning you, what would you like them to say about you?”
The first friend a doctor says, “I would like them to say he was a good doctor and a great family man!”
The second friend says, “I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and a wonderful college professor!”
The jury looks at the third man who says, “I would like them to say, “look he’s moving!”
Oh yes wouldn’t we all love to hear that? And here’s one I repeated to my doctor wife last evening and had her in splits:
In a hospital in the ICU patients always died in the same bed at 11 am on every Sunday morning regardless of what they were suffering from. This puzzled the medical staff, so a group of doctors decided to observe the bed in secret and waited for the fateful hour.
Some held crosses and prayer books to ward off evil influences, while the less superstitious had video records to capture every moment on tape. At the eleventh hour the door to the ward slowly opened, then a cleaner came in, disconnected the life support system and plugged in his vacuum cleaner!
For the cleaner it was just another plug point right? And here’s another:
There’s a knock at the Pearly Gates, and when the angel in charge looks out, he sees a man waiting to come in, he is about to open the Gates when the man disappears!
A short time later there’s the same knock, the angel frowns and is about to let him in when the man disappears again. The angel decides to go inside and is just about to leave when the knock happens again and he sees the same man at the Gates.
“Are you playing games?” asks the angel sternly.
“No,” says the harried man, “They’re trying to resuscitate me down on earth!”
Well that’s all the humour for today, but even as you smile and move away from this page, maybe in the same spirit and mood t’would be good to whisper a prayer to the One who kept you and your family safe last year, a prayer of thanksgiving that you and your loved ones are alive and safe and well..!
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