How to look at death

On FMag today, my editorial with a bit of autobiography for an introduction:

Perhaps I have always thought about death a lot, because in my college days I escaped practically unscathed, without a seat belt, from an auto accident, which should have killed me. Or perhaps it’s because I had chronic abdominal pain as a child and then surgery to remove a kidney at 18. Or perhaps I just have a weird personality. Or an overactive imagination.

Read the article, "When Death Ceases to Be a Morbid Subject."


Famous devo book published posthumously. Often, greatest good comes after death.

These daily readings have been selected from various sources, chiefly from the lectures given at the Bible Training College, Clapham, during the years 1911-1915; then, from October 1915 to November 1917, from talks given night by night in the Y.M.C.A. Huts, Zeitoun, Egypt. In November 1917 my husband entered into God's presence. Since then many of the talks have been published in book form, and others from which these readings have been gathered will also be published in due course.
via myutmost.org

Oswald Chambers's wife published his devotional book, My Utmost for His Highest, after his death. It has become a world favorite.

We never know what good may come from our efforts after we are gone. God is not limited to our lifespan when he wants to use our works for his kingdom.

She wanted an "Expired" parking meter on her grave

Saw this, where else?, on Facebook, and the poster said: "A woman who died wanted a parking meter on her grave that says "Expired". Her nephew got one on ebay and set it right on the road next to her grave for all to see."

And I wrote this little quatrain in her honor:

She gave up the ghost, her meter expired,
She laid down and died, her body was tired;
The bucket appeared, at last did she kick it,
She parked in her space, and left with her ticket.