All it takes is five seconds, and it can change your whole perspective about the word "Death".
good friend of mine died, after falling off a bicycle. I couldn't comprehend the fact that he was dead for a .
few hours after my father told me. It seemed to me that just a moment ago I was playing basketball with .
him. He was only twelve but I knew him since he was very young. Actually he was almost a best friend to .
me. After his accident he was rushed to the hospital with a coma. Then after two weeks all his organs .
eventually failed. I was so nave. During the time he was in the hospital, I always told myself that he was .
going to be all right and he was going to be out of there in no time. But I was wrong, and I learned that life .
wasn't like that and it didn't always happen that way. .
Having a near death experience myself, my thoughts about death also took a different turn. I never thought .
death would even come near me. Last year in May, my sister, dad, and I were driving down to California. .
And it was about seven o'clock in the morning and my sister was driving. Then she fell asleep and starting .
driving off the road. She swerved back on the road really hard, which made the car flip over four times. .
Then we were rushed to the hospital and stayed there for about an hour. My sister and I were all right but .
my dad was in critical condition. My dad ended up only loosing his pinky finger. Just being in that .
situation made my outlook on life and death different. I couldn't bear the fact that my dad would be gone .
forever. Being a Christian I was brought up to believe that people who believe in Jesus Christ would have .
a greater destiny in heaven. But in these two situations with death, I wasn't able to think about them being .
gone and in heaven. I only ! .
thought about them being gone period. .
Watching all the hurts and tears that people shed during my friends death made me think about .
how death can be such an impact on peoples lives.