http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2007/05/05/a-sudden-and-evil-death/ "I cling to my Lord Christ like a burr on cloth." - Katherine Luther Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:23:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.burrintheburbs.com/2007/05/05/a-sudden-and-evil-death/comment-page-1/#comment-2024 katie Mon, 07 May 2007 15:10:00 +0000 http://testing8220.wordpress.com/2007/05/05/a-sudden-and-evil-death/#comment-2024 We pray the Litany during Lent.<br/>I always put the two terms together--sudden and evil--as one qualifier.<br/>What if death itself came suddenly, but after an evil sort of suffering: torture, for instance, or captivity, or some other torment?<br/>That's what always came to my mind; not a 'sudden' or 'evil' death, but 'sudden and evil death.' Not getting suddenly snuffed out in a wreck on the highway, but seeing little or no hope for outliving a horrifying situation.<br/>I think of hostages who've longed for freedom and for reunion with their families or their former lives, but who know death is as likely an outcome as freedom.<br/>Pray God spares any of us that, death itself, of course, being the end of any and all such suffering. We pray the Litany during Lent.
I always put the two terms together–sudden and evil–as one qualifier.
What if death itself came suddenly, but after an evil sort of suffering: torture, for instance, or captivity, or some other torment?
That’s what always came to my mind; not a ‘sudden’ or ‘evil’ death, but ‘sudden and evil death.’ Not getting suddenly snuffed out in a wreck on the highway, but seeing little or no hope for outliving a horrifying situation.
I think of hostages who’ve longed for freedom and for reunion with their families or their former lives, but who know death is as likely an outcome as freedom.
Pray God spares any of us that, death itself, of course, being the end of any and all such suffering.

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