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That addiction egyptians death: I think that they've somehow postponed death and they're going to ward off the angel of death drinkers for example anybody who's addicted to anything if you quit that addiction you think you have a new lease on life and you do.
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- Mark has both a master's degree in clinical social work and in theology and philosophy. As a professional thanatologist he collaborated in the development of a conscious sedation protocol for hospice. For the hospice of volusia and fend flagger. Flagler. Hint. How do you say flavor. In port orange where he serves as a spiritual care counselor. Mark is also pursuing advanced studies in neurophysiology through the chicago theological seminary in conjunction with the university of chicago. I don't know i kind of prefer fackler myself thank you for that that was nicely done nicely done you knew i would use that course to my advantage. Would you hold the hand of somebody next to you. Close your eyes. Maru katha i don't know how bizarre baruch attah adonai. Cabaret. goffin. Animal toberman ahkeem. Chevy rockingham. Shalom aleichem pesach. I'm in. Blessed are we among human beings who celebrate the day of passover how good how pleasant it was to touch the hands of fellow human beings. Blessings to you happy passover. Let my people go. Charlton heston made that. Famous when he was portraying moses and he was speaking to pharaoh. He could have pulled out a gun being charlton heston but he knew that pharaoh would die of cancer soon enough. Let my people go. 3000 years ago the israelites were enslaved by the egyptians under the rule of pharaoh ramses the second although some scholars will argue that that was cut mostly the third i don't care which one. According to the book of exodus moses a simple jewish shepherd was instructed by to go to pharaoh and demand the freedom of his people. Moses plea of let my people go. Was ignored. In response yahweh unleashed a series of 10 plagues on the people of egypt. Blood. Frogs. Lice. Flies. Sounds like central florida cattle disease. Boils. Hail. Locust. And darkness. But pharaoh was unconvinced. Danny refused to free the jewish slaves. Until the last plague. The slaying of the firstborn child. In exodus 3:12 and strike down every first born. Most men and animals. I will bring judgment on all the gods of egypt. I am the lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. When i see the blood. I will pass over you. The passover holiday in hebrew is called pesach. Which means passing over. For protection. I needed the ride specifically from the instructions. Given to moses by yahweh. During the last plague. In order to encourage the pharaoh to free the israelites god intended to kill the firstborn of both man and beast. That included egyptians and the israelites. To protect themselves israelites or their houses. With lamb's blood. So the yahweh could identify them and pass over their homes. And spare their lives. I've entitled today's talk passover lessons and countering the angel of death and it is the purpose of this presentation to look at the passover as a metaphor in three ways. To describe the inexorable fear. Apprehension and anxiety associated with the coming of the angel of death. To consider twenty-first-century ways that modern man uses blood rituals. Devices and other amulets to ward off. The death angel and you suggest at least. Two lessons that we can learn from the passover holiday. You'll notice that i'm doing something i don't normally do which is stand behind the pulpit. I don't like it back here. I like to be out there amongst. The people. I'm a man of the people. But because i am going to cover so much information i have outlined it so i will wander less. Notice the wanderer fun israelites egypt sinai eye with me alright. Can you hear me alright can everyone hear me i seem to be going in and out in and out is that because there's a problem with communications around my alright can you hear me. Did you hear me put your hands up. Oh good that's good. I know you can hear me to do that. Fear and trembling there is an inexorable fear of the angel of death. That death is feared that death is denied that death is dreaded and outwitted is evident by the prolific euphemisms that we use to personify it. We are even afraid to say the word death. We don't even use that word if we can avoid it. We talked about it and other terms have you noticed that. Death is a terrifying thing that we don't like to discuss because somehow it means something we don't want to talk about. When you're born you inspire. When you die you expired. In between you perspire if you're not careful you'll cons fire. But we don't die. The healthcare industry doesn't say people have died or your dad was approaching we use all kinds of cute funny things to describe the dying experience let me give you a few of my personal favorites i have so many but i've only pick 10. Los. I lost my wife last year what do you mean you lost her. Well she she passed away what do you mean she passed away past what you can't get them to say died. I lost my wife. To be taken. Well the great. A great lord took my uncle took what do you mean. To be taken. Cash in one chips. I hear this one all the time cash in one's chips is this dying. Cachet wants chips. To blink for an excessively long. of time. To bite the dust. You've heard that one haven't you. Across the stage in fairy. How about my favorite. Peasant under grass. How about this i hear this all the time in the hospital metabolically challenge. Metabolically challenge. Death is the cessation of life in any living organism in any living organism. So seriously has impacted humans seriously impacted we have tended as a human race. Because there is no other race but human we have been tended to try and cover up death and cast death in what we call anthropomorphic figures. We don't talk about death we don't say the word deaths but in popular culture and mythology since the beginning of recorded history and storytelling itself. Human-like qualities grim reaper. That's an anthropomorphic assignment. Anthropomorphism what is that anybody know what that is. I know bob does. Hold on. Casting one's gods especially in human form and throws his man. You can of course anthropomorphize things other than the gods but that's the way it's hard nearly used thank you doctor flick that is exactly right it is basically assigning human characteristics. To a god to an animal to a thing are you coming up here after me. You going to fix it. I like it when i'm fixed. Make this fall open okay. Alright how's that is that better. Okay. Alright. Locations depicting in animals or things or or anything that we wanted to pick in human terms. Peter rabbit. Winnie-the-pooh. The hand of god god has no hand. But yet we talk about these things in human terms to help us understand these difficult concepts and deaf. Has austin and almost always been talked about anthropomorphically the hand of death the arm of death the grim reaper the angel of death. People don't always talk about sometimes they decide to discuss terms. A doctor can inspire dread and anxiety a doctor's visit a doctor brings bad news adjudge. Adjudge can hand down a death sentence or hand down a sentence that is received and interpreted as a death. Sentence hospital. How many you like hospitals. You associate with hospital pain and misery and suffering and dreads doesn't anxiety that accursed one of the best examples of of death today is not even the word answer. Cancer and i'm making mediately you assumed f is back most people don't say cancer out loud. They whisper it. Or. Say we tend to whisper certain words that somehow are more painful to say out loud. You say cancer today and automatically you're thinking the angel of death cancer treatment center. Chemotherapy. Minister. Hospice is often associated with that excuse a hospice and the concept of death comes to mind you usually get. Because they assume it's on its way hospice is often seen as the angel of death. My roll one of my rolls and hospices chaplin. For spiritual care provider. I've had patients and families tell me don't tell me yet because if you come i'll die. I'm seen as the angel of death. Somehow i bring death because if i show up as a minister or spiritual person i'm going to represent the grim reaper for the angel of that i'm god's emissary. And god can looking me different ways for people who are suffering. In the end. Another wonderful popular. Expression of the angel of death would be mother-in-law. Let me see if you are awake see if you guys are awake. Let me ask you a question. Serious question let me ask you a question. What is it. What is it about the approach of the angel of death. Pain unknown. Cessation. Unfinished business. Could the event could be right i wish i had permission to explore that. Learning stop learning. The approach of the angel of death. Assign any anthropomorphic term you like the death the approach of death and it's angel. Inspires dread and fear apprehension and anxiety. The most common answer i get is something along the lines of mark this is the only life we know and it's a pretty good one. I don't want to give it up. I don't know what's going on this i don't know what's coming. Hello up and say now wait a minute didn't you have a life before you came here. Didn't you experience life for 9 months in a place that was pretty good i didn't want to leave that either if that's you were compelled to leave he were told my mom get out. Angeles that life. And you came into this life which you now defensor rigidly as it's pretty good and it's all i know. I always think of myself as the next experience. Somehow not going to be as good. Do we have any evidence to suggest that our next pushing out of the womb of this life won't be as much fun as we're doing right now. But i don't know i don't know. Charms. Amulets. Devices how many do you wear a cross around your neck. How many if you have a charm or a bracelet or anklets for something that you wear or you keep near you to encourage. 2 to comfort you. Love you do. Does it mean anything. There are a lot of people who who. In the 21st century project will use. Charms to ward off the angel of death. To somehow. The angel coming to get them. Or try and keep death at bay. What blood rituals. What amulets and charms do we use today. To ward off the angel of death many of us right here have already painted across our doors to protect ourselves from the oncoming avenger. Before i name the seven things i thought of. Anybody have any ideas of ways that's 21st century americans just like you and just like me. Turn off the angel of death things that we do everyday. To try and keep away from us. The gym are avoided because you go to the gym and exercise. There's some jam that smell so bad you die if you walked in the prices so high that would tell you but yes exercise preventive maintenance going to say the same thing. Vitamins. That's it you're done. Okay. Vitamins the gym. Proper food. Proper food. You don't need that you look fine plastic surgery. Oh yeah. Plastic surgery let's look younger let's look prettier let's change things. Any else. Health check-ups. Where that's one on my list. Medication that's on my list too. Lose weight. Okay. Self-help books. Lord in heaven that quieter. That's quite a market there. Improving the environment. What else. Training a new styles on the secret square win. Anything else. Cleaning. Are you saying cleaning. Cleaning. Making things germ-free are you a microphone. Use the word god and off alot. And you think that helps you. But you use it. Does it comfort you to use that word. Okay. Okay a lot of people who would say i'm not religious are comforted by certain religious icons are certain figures crucifixes in the word god or churches but they're not religious but it brings him comfort somehow especially when you're diagnosed terminally and that's just true it just is. Anything else. Puyallup mentioned several of what i'm going to suggest there are a lot but i only picked 7 yeah. Wright's mini smokers who have quit. I think that they've somehow postponed death and they're going to ward off the angel of death drinkers for example anybody who's addicted to anything if you quit that addiction you think you have a new lease on life and you do. To certain extent. Keeping yourself active. A variety variety is the spice of life right. So sometimes you can ward off the angel of death by killing the angel of death first. Right. If if that is approaching you and you can kill death first. Why not do that people do that all the time don't they. I would say and i will say watch am going to say it euthanasia is an attempt to kill yourself off before death get you. We do it all the time we want to control that coming of the angel so the angel can't have me i'll take care of how i die so behind that drive behind that euthanasia behind a lot of our advance directives in medical care is an attempt to control how the dying process occurs. We don't mind the angel coming some would say but we want to take a little control over how that's done. Manipulate that a bit. First thing i wrote down was procedures. Intended not that your butt to prolong life. Procedures that people would have if your life is good and your life is it is well and healthy and it's possible to continue i mean people who are terminally diagnosed or people who know for a fact that the procedure is not going to cure them but it's going to prolong their lives. We do a lot of procedures in this country a lot of money to be made on procedures that don't care but prolong our lives to keep the angel of death at bay. Just a little further away. Medications manufactured not secure but to maintain. To prolong to delay death. Multiple medications you can take every single day to keep you alive one more day. To keep you alive one more year or hopefully keep things in check so that your life can continue to delay the onset of death. Someone said prayer. What evengelical iconai special to have this answer dairy what evangelical icon use prayer in an effort to put the angel of death away. Daikon. Jesus. Do you know the prayer. Father let this cup pass from me. But not my will but thine be done. Jesus christ prayed and asked god i don't want to die the angel of death was coming in the form of the crucifixion. And jesus use prayer in an effort to try and intercede and save. Himself from death. Superstitious beliefs. Black cats walking under ladders salt over the shoulder how many you are superstitious don't answer. We're all superstitious to a certain extent we all have our ideas about superstition how about rituals. Rituals people often use ritual compulsive personalities will do more than break mom's back. They really think that somehow by performing their rituals throughout the day they're prolonging their life and if they break or rituals or they move out of their compulsion they're inviting death. They risked death square all compulsive to a certain extent we all have rituals and we all do things that we hope will ensure our help ritualistically jog every morning in an attempt to exercise an attempt to prevent premature death or at least a good one in my grave. It's important you know it's all about ego isn't it. Isn't it. Don't you think. I'm going to talk about that in a second. How about relics you know what a relic is beside the person sitting next to you. You are a relic is what's a relic. What's a catholic church relic. A bone or a piece of tooth or sometimes a lock of hair a part of a body usually it's a bone of a saint blessed by the church if you put that bone or that relics on a person's forehead or in their palm and your prey known that person is in the dying process. Then you can hopefully cure and heal that person relics are attempts at people used to ward off the coming of the grim reaper for the angel of death. Crucifixes. Hangover doors hungover beds. Hung beside doors. Call arnett place on bodies. Play near bodies i've walked into many places and found the crucifix stuffed under a pillow of a non-catholic person who if they knew was there would have thrown up. That happens all the time but it comforted the person coming to see him. So they thought somehow that amulet that cross the crucifix not just across there had to be a christ figure on the cross so it depends on the kind of sign to the end it wasn't as going to work. I have a lot of friends i do have a lot of friends i do and they think they're going to church. He's going to save them. Not just spiritually but somehow going to church the act of showing up and being there is itself. A ritual that will keep the angel of death at bay. The actual act. Important. How about. Cryonics. Cryonics. Ce qui onyx when i was joking around with somebody nobody knew all there an audience full of professors and nobody answered so i the bad guy said cryonics when you cry black tears. Nobody got it nobody got it you get it cryonics onyx black. Cryonics. Cryonics and of course ted williams is the most famous cryogen right now but they're all there are multiple people who have actually died and that they think that they can freeze an end and a comeback so cryonics is a wonderful modern technologically-advanced way of keeping the angel of death away from you. Cryonics. Cryonics. How about military measures. How about what steve mention war. We regularly send young women and young men to die and shed their blood for us on foreign soil to keep death from coming home. We regularly let them die we encourage them so i don't have to die. War the wonderful way that we use to keep the angel of death at bay. All kinds of ways that we use to ward off the angel of death things that we do try and keep. Death away from us. Some people will sell all their all their all their property and they'll fly to egypt and roll and sacred mud. That happens. Some people will cash in their life insurance policy and they'll they'll fly to a certain jungle or they'll traverse a certain mountain in attempts to dip in water that said to be healing they're said to be blessed sand and part of the world and they'll sell everything to get to that location in hopes that dipping in that or being covered in that or just being in that location will somehow keep the angel of death in bed. Did there's some way to be healed and stay here. Stay here. People do all kinds of things to avoid the coming of the angel of death we paint our doors red all the time. We have all kinds of proverbial ways that we paint the blood in our lives to keep living just one more day. Take for granted today that we have. Cuz we don't realize what we've got until you lose it. Because we're here and we're enjoying it but yet we don't really know how to enjoy it. Many times when i show up in a patient's room. Or families house. Interesting thing happens. They died. It's true. I think part of the fear people have. Chaplain or a minister or spiritual person or vicar or a shaymin whatever assign term you want to use to a spiritual person arriving is that once. I show up. People panda relax. And they died. So many times families. Don't want me there because when i show up there going to seriously make peace with whatever it is and they think whether i say or anything or not but somehow i'm going to bring absolution of sin i'm going to help the guild go away but my present it's amazing i walk into rooms and it's amazing how people change when i'm in my. Outfit and i show up representing a certain things how their bodies relax and how they look at me as if somehow i'm the bringer of blessed release or or some kind of comfort and that's an awesome responsibility that i don't like. Because i realize they're looking to me for things i can't give them such as healing and cure. Sometimes when i lay my hands on someone's head and hold everyone else's hands and i pray for healing and comfort and hope and use nice generic term that works for everyone in the room. The person died five minutes later sometimes they died right when i'm touching them. Sometimes they open their eyes and they're better for 2 days. That synchronicity element that arrival of me as the angel of death of the grim reaper not only brings death of brings. Sometimes absolution. Closure. I think it's wonderful that bob brought up the funeral society because you years ago we used to bury our own people. We laid them out and wash the bodies and put them in our living rooms we had immediate ongoing closure we touch the bodies we said goodbye in ways that make sense for our whole family's and the funeral industry association came in and remove this task from us. Thinking they were removing the burdens from our lives of the pain of death death is endemic to the human experience. And it took away from us in many ways the chance to heal. I like to see it's change that. I like to see a change that a little bit. Yeah. Moving on. The third and final part of what i want to talk about this morning from the passover holiday. Passover represent into the israelites deliverance. It represented freedom. Freedom not just from the bondage of slavery but freedom from the ideas that enslave them. He promotes change an on-off switch is an eight-day celebration but today is the passover sunday i recommend that. Let you think about changing. I've never seen people change anymore than when they have encountered or see on the horizon the approaching angel of death. There's just something wonderful about death that brings change that people won't do otherwise i've often said that cancer is a gift and the reason i say that is because cancer or disease or calamity. It brings opportunity that won't come otherwise people tend to wait. People tend to act like they have forever people live their lives like they'll be here tomorrow. Eye cancer or calamity enforces your hand and it forces you to talk about. Think about and make friends with stuff you'd rather just avoid. It gets those conversation started now. With family and friends. That's so good. I can't go on about how good that is long enough that's so good to initiate that now. People will do all kinds of things. And she did. We had a great talker that you said i should let you in sooner you're so much fun i was fun. We play cards we had a great time we just talked about what she wanted to do. People make changes personal who they are and how they perceive life. What do you think you're grasping at straws commonly occur.. This is an honest question. Why do people grasp at straws at the last minute. What is it. What what is it in our human experience i'm looking at all these humans tell me what is it why do we grasp at straws why do we clean and hang on when it's clear there is no home when it's clear the body is dying from the body will be dead in 12 hours for the next date when the body is clearly dying why don't we accept it. Why do we grasp. Why do we clean. What is it. What is don't say fear. Don't say it's not just hear what is it. Rejection. Desperation. The world live. Cheated death. Self doubt. Miracles. Okay. Does someone else want to say what what about what. Another work is to final. Who sang it's too final. What is it. Year. They talked about it they made plans for they know they're dying and still they grasp at straws and hope against hope. Human emotion is that. What is that. What about that. What's an active human self-preservation still want to stay alive. For for your loved one to want you to stay here. Is it you go after all. I'll change in 5 years. But right now i think that often what i'm seeing is nothing more than human ego not knowing how. The stop. We're all inherently selfish. We all are entitled to certain things. Even altruistic have rewards. So what about. Is there just one more thing we like to hang onto is it an act of selfishness at its deepest route. I don't know the question. It might be just avoiding pain. That's what i exactly what would you have us do. I do make. Well no no say i made people all i need people everyday that's a 3 out of 10 i meet are okay with that they welcome their. They don't exhibit any of these frustration anxiety signs and i always ask them in ways that work for them how is it you come to this psychological position and place where you're okay over here and joe blow over here is not. Because i need to learn how that happened. How is it that people look at me and say what are you worried about this is easy. There's some people but intuitively already get it. But they've already been there or or they understand the spiritual aspect of the dying process and they're comfy with the body dying. And others don't know how to get out of their bodies it's like this is all i've got i like this. Device is falling apart and i'm broken down but it's mine and i'm not giving it up. There are some that are okay with it. There's a difference. I'm trying to understand it i don't have a definitive answer i don't know but there are some that are alright with the angel of death. The grim reaper's their friend. They're not morbid they just they just in a different level. And i want to know how to get there. Halo. A lot of things. Doesn't want to be there when it happens if i just don't want to be there when it happens. Alright. As things that i think we we learn from passover is it it promotes appreciation. Appreciation for what we have right now. Right here and right now. It's often not having the things that we wanna life is learning how to walk and appreciate what we already have. And i think that. Use the moment. With the people and the things that we love. There is no time. If you wake up every morning and you brush your teeth and you have one little mantra just tell yourself there is no time you don't have tomorrow you don't have tonight. You're lucky to get your teeth brushed and you're alright. Really is your last day it's hard to do that practically. Try and act like he don't have that kind of certainty. That part of the fear is when your trembley diagnose suddenly you have a sense of certainty about when you are going to die and that man alone frightens people. I don't know now there's a deadline now i can see it and if i'm not careful it's going to get me. We are at the end of our time. Thank you you are aware. Do you have any questions or thoughts. And i would i would say that if you want to if you want to live more now see that one he always has one. Your mouth big enough they just yelling. Okay. Actually i think the cryofreeze preservationist. Are one of the more interesting groups. But i've read about. And some people in here may identify with that group in the reason i think it's because they put their ultimate faith in science and materialism. So there the feeling is that. They must die naturally anyway. What they think of course is that by. Preserving. By freezing. Their body. But eventually science will get to the point where it will totally understand the workings of the human body at some point they will be able to cure all illness. Matter how long it takes because once they're preserved even if it's 500 years into the future. That science will be able to first of all thawed them out. Cure their illness and then they will simply go on. Discount benefits in 4 years in the future as my current cell. Not even considering the implications of trying to adjust. To live 200 years from now i can't imagine that. Yeah that's great i don't know okay. At the risk of leaving myself wide open to you about risk. When you were talking about pesach being you know a time of renewal and change i just wanted to emphasize it prior to the eight days you are to see that your entire household is completely clean and every direction to open that door. If you have broken relationships. If there are things you've been putting off and you haven't done. Is it time for you to do that. Time for you to clean house. Spiritually literally emotionally physically. Goof off learn how to play and enjoy life and never never never never follow the crowd never never not only is it boring but it diminishes your opportunity in your spirits are becoming who you're meant to be. Don't follow the crowd don't follow the herd. Yeah. There was an article in the orlando sentinel was thursday it came from the new york times and it talked about. In our country. Relationship. Sing. Country have this mentality of a born-again where is europeans they live for the now and that's why they smoke because they they don't have this thing exercising and do all these things that you are going to erase the past. But a europeans don't tend to think like we do in this country. His reasons for that and you just figured i'll mention real fast and i talked before in the past about different kinds of lies and different kinds of death. And i'm a strong advocate for body death. Not spiritual death. I think bodies died i think the energy in the spirit live in the venue does not die. Where that goes and all that that's another whole talk but we're talkin about body death angel death comes to take the body where's the rest of that go. When my late husband was dying of cancer. The week before he died he said that he was not afraid to die and this had a very soothing calming. Affect. For me right. But he was not afraid. And his death was very peaceful and very loving very gentle. And it was a beautiful thing to see very difficult. For me to live on. Afterward.. It did help. Marcus ware. Hi judy the information that you gave about pretending like everyday is your last. I would i would just issue a word of caution about that i think every cell in the body. Here's every single thought that we think and every feeling that we have and that we program those cells for however it is we want. Things to play out and so thinking but this is the last time. And the other thing is this passover is highlighted by two other things that are pretty unusual one of them is a full moon today. Attention attention. Go out tonight if you can look at the moon it's going to be remarkable. Really. All of us in flagler county will be. A question and a comment oh no i'll give you the question first okay. What do you wear. When you go to someone's house in your official capacity to the fact that you put on a costume of some sort what people need me to be so if they are catholic in background i will wear something black and i'll even wear the collar if they like it off and disenfranchised catholic so i'm a surrogate if they are surfers. And i took care of a fourteen-year-old kid he wanted me and sandals flip-flops tank top and so i become all things to the people that need me i dress age stage appropriate so i wear what people need me to wear so that they're comforted. 13 or 14 minutes in my timer station i find out what they need me to be. You're not trying to come at your chameleon. Learning how to be there for them in ways that work for them but also for me. The brief comment i think comes from the meditations of marcus aurelius who is the stoic. That goes simply something like this. Before i was born. I was nothing. And nowhere. After i die. I will be nothing. And nowhere is so fearful about that. I thank you. Other questions or comments i want to thank you guys for coming is a lot of you here. Is that because you're afraid to die. Comment about someone saying some people. Suddenly become very peaceful. Maybe because they suddenly realize they know where they're going. There's a place to go sometimes they turn the corner and they're ready. as long as their first. Go hand-in-hand teachings i found the address. Tibetan bowl cover. I like that. Weather. Thank you. Do you know birth is death you realize when you're holding a baby that a death occurred for that to happen so and relationships are born and die everyday so i'm not surprised to see this every new beginning somewhere and you couldn't start over again. He also works with an indy circle of life. That walt disney world captured so beautifully you know you have to really you know that's that's always there thank you very much i appreciate it.
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