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Old 07-03-2009, 02:14 PM
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First off let me make clear that I have to stay awake all night every night so I tend to think up weird stuff...

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If a couple is engaged to be married, and one of them dies, can the other person be sealed by proxy to that person? ie.. John and Jane are to be wed in the temple in say...october...but in september, John falls down the stairs at some silly wedding reception place where he was drug there against his own free will...


so these two people loved each other enough to want to be sealed for eternity, but circumstances prevented that....can there still be a proxy sealing? like people who get married outside the temple and lose a spouse?


or situation numero dos....as Jack and Diane are driving to the temple to get married, there is a freak accident that causes a 137 car pile up...and both parties are killed, en route to the temple for their wedding....

Personally, I'd be rather disapointed if i didn't get to spend enterntiy with someone i loved, and was about to be married to, cause of a freak accident, like a tanker of Hienz ketchup and a truck full of potatoes colliding on the I-15
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I don't know the answer and am not sure we have an "official" stance on such circumstances. My thoughts and speculation is that no, they would not be sealed by proxy. HOWEVER, we have to remember that our thoughts and lives are mortal. What cannot be done in this life, may be done in the next. So, just because a couple isn't sealed in this life by tragic accident doesn't mean that it won't happen at all.
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No, and no. Proxy sealings are done for people who are already married.
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This is one situation that is very sad and unfortunate... I'm sure God has something planned for them in the after life...
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First off let me make clear that I have to stay awake all night every night so I tend to think up weird stuff.

so here goes

...John falls down the stairs at some silly wedding reception place where he was drug there against his own free will...

...or situation numero dos....as Jack and Diane are driving to the temple to get married, there is a freak accident that causes a 137 car pile up...and both parties are killed, en route to the temple for their wedding....

...cause of a freak accident, like a tanker of Hienz ketchup and a truck full of potatoes colliding on the I-15...
I will positively agree that you do think up weird stuff Jbs2763.

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I will positively agree that you do think up weird stuff Jbs2763.

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... cause of a freak accident, like a tanker of Heinz ketchup and a truck full of potatoes colliding on the I-15
You forgot the Crisco truck and the John Deere shredder also traveling on I-15.

Let's place our trust in God to adequately fill in the blanks. That way we can pursue our dream of Elphaba aiming the Deathstar at that crazed blond from Fox News.
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Ok, so I am going to make everyone crazy by saying this, but:

I have a friend that lives in Centerville. Her fiance died of cancer before they were married. It has been about 8 years since he died. She recently received permission from the First Presidency and was sealed to her fiance. I thought it was all very bizarre, she took bridal photos, everything. Her brother stood as proxy. Just goes to show that you can't underestimate the power of Keys in the Priesthood and the far reaching effect of the Atonement.
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i would think both situations could be sealed by proxy (at least a yr after the death) but it would take permission from the first presidency, wouldn't be an ordinary sealing.
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Ok, so I am going to make everyone crazy by saying this, but:

I have a friend that lives in Centerville. Her fiance died of cancer before they were married. It has been about 8 years since he died. She recently received permission from the First Presidency and was sealed to her fiance. I thought it was all very bizarre, she took bridal photos, everything. Her brother stood as proxy. Just goes to show that you can't underestimate the power of Keys in the Priesthood and the far reaching effect of the Atonement.
I don't think it's so crazy--I read awhile back where Abraham Lincoln's fiance before he married Mary Todd -- was sealed to Abe--I don't recall her name but supposedly Abe was madly in love with her. I think the sealing took place after Abe's death.
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