Letter: To some, death is a blessing

Editor,

Only God knows in his wisdom just exactly why he takes so many in a natural disaster, but it's apparently their time. It's a big subject and a big question that the World has wondered over for ages. Even Christians, theologians and church leaders: Why does God destroy so many people? The thing that people wonder about is why it so often seems to strike the poor, the needy, the helpless, children and the innocent. Well, when you realize there's a better world hereafter and the after life is one to be anticipated. Who else but those who are the most suffering , the most innocent need to be relieved of this life and will appreciate the next life more than ever? Who else deserves to go sooner? As someone has said, "The good die young!" Well, this isn't always true, but it seems often true. Who better deserves to go on to a better World than the good? Death is not a curse for little children, the innocent, the poor , the suffering , the less responsible, less accountable. Death is not a curse for them, because they go to a better World, a better life, a relief from the evils of this horrible planet and so death's a blessing. So perhaps this is why the Lord allows so many of the poor, the young to die, those who are suffering just almost beyond endurance in this life. Therefore the Lord takes them out of their suffering, out of their poverty, out of their pain, out of their starvation. He blesses them with death - which to those upon whom he has such mercy is a mere gateway, a doorway, an entrance to a better life in which they'll be relieved of all this.