i cant believe bernie mac died.  the media says it was due to complications from pneumonia and had nothing to do with his pre-existing disease, sarcoidosis... yeah right.  anyway, when i read the headline today i didnt really believe it.  i had to read it over again in order for it to register.  and it reminded me of what happened in the er yesterday.

a couple kids and a lady came in from a motor vehicle accident.  one of the kids was in bad shape.  at some point they had to do chest compressions on him.  it was kind of making me sick watching the body move like a rag doll every time they pushed his chest wall downwards.  in the end, he didnt make it.

writing about this, also reminds me of something that happened earlier in the year.  i was walking through the hallway that connects the administrative part of the building to the hospital, when a huge flower arrangement loomed before me... the kind that they only have at funerals.  i stopped to read the paper attached to it and found that one of the young residents i had worked with recently died.  i remembered him in particular because he was nice and good looking... and married.  hehe.  so yeah i didnt make a move on him or anything.  but he was nice and, thus, it was nice working with them.  i was quite shocked that he was dead.  i wondered what he would have thought/done if he knew that at the time i worked with him, he had only 6 months to live.

i dont know if any of these people were prepared to die.  but they definitely send a message to the living.  be prepared to die.  dont let it sneak up on you.  because there will be a judgement and no one will want to go to hell.  for everyone who knows God will find rest, but for everyone who doesnt, there will be eternal pain and anguish.