I found this in my Father's Bible yesterday. My father was a Primitive Baptist Minister since he was 18. He presided over hundreds of funerals and stood by the bedside of many of his church members and family at time of death. Here is what he copied from someone:


The Dying Never Shed Tears

I have stood by the bedside of hundreds of dying people, "observed an old physician," and I have yet to see a dying person shed a tear, no matter what the grief of the standbys may be, the stricken person will show no sign of overpowering emotion, I have seen a circle of agonized children, around a dying mother--a mother who in health would have been touched to the quick signs of grief in a child, yet she reposed as calm and unemotional as though she was made of stone. There is a strange and inexplicable psychological change which accompanies the act of dissolution. It is well known to all physicians that pain disappears as the end approaches and nature seems to have arranged it so that mental peace shall also attend our last lingering illness.

I am not sure how you will view this, but for me, I believe that pain will disappear and my death should be rejoiced because I am now absent from my body and present with my Lord Jesus.

God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 1 John 5:11