“As long as the earth” and marriage “lasts, seedtime and harvest” including children and grandchildren “cold and heat” warmth and affection and lack thereof “Summer [sic] and winter” good times and bad “and day and night” and darkness and clear insight “shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22).  “Precious in the eyes of the LORD is the death of his faithful ones” (Psalm 116:15) and that is a reason for a “Do Not Resuscitate” DNR directive.  “To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise” (Psalm 116:17a).  “Then he sent him home” i.e. through death “and said `do not even go into the village’” (Mark 8:26).  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 337, Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I, the day after Valentine’s Day.