A Pillar of Salt

Genesis 17-24

As everybody lives extremely long time, the story of Abram continues. Now, he is not Abram but Abraham, just as his wife Sarai, now she is Sarah. So Abraham's quest is to go to another land and make it all mighty, but now, her wife, which wasn't meant to have children, will now bare him a child named Isaac. Its kind of funny that a woman who was not meant to be mother, suddenly was because the Lord God wanted to. I still cant believe that such a old woman was able to bare one. Specially when they said that she died of 127 years old. "And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah". (Gen.23 1)
I guess all the characters of the Bible have made some World Records in terms of living.

I remember watching a movie about Lot. I still remember when he was told that the city would be destroyed, but I do not recall that angels appeared in "human" form. I still cant believe that they weren't able to find more than ten noble men. "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
[25] And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.".( Gen.19 25-26)

I thought God knew that all men were born evil, and he would never kill so many people like in the flood. At least Lot and his family had the chance to leave the city, but the wife did look backwards, and was turned into salt. "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt".(Gen.19 26)
It reminded me of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus had the chance to take his lover back with him, with the only condition of not looking back. It was so simple, at least he didn't have to fight in a life or death match. Foolishly, he did look backwards, and Hermes took his wife away. In this case, Lot's wife looked back, and she was "taken" away for ever.