Facing Death and the Life After [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment. Hebrews 9:27 The 563 men, women and children who boarded The Herald of Free Enterprise ferry on March 6, 1987, in Zeebrugge, Belgium, for a trip across the English Channel to Dover, England, had no inkling of what awaited them shortly after leaving the harbor. Without warning, the four-thousand-ton vessel began to list and within seconds, the happy passengers were transformed into desperate, terrified people as they plunged beneath the icy cold waters and began to battle for their lives. Two hundred passengers and crew members went to a watery grave. The only reason the toll was not much higher was the quick work by rescue crews who risked their own lives to save others. More recently, thirty-seven men lost their lives on the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf, and some twenty-nine