@Drewnogal saidTrying to accept we make human mistakes may help, together with the insight that it's never one person's fault when relationships fail.
Not being able to accept that my brother has gone I suppose. I read somewhere that we cope easier with a loss if we had a good relationship with that person whereby one in which there was something unresolved causes difficulty. I have wondered if I’m hanging on to this to punish myself?
-Removed-You’re spot on here! I attended a Catholic primary school with a harsh, cruel Irish headmaster who caned me twice before I was 10 for things that could have been simply explained. I used to leave confession thinking that if I got run over my soul would be clean enough to get me straight into heaven. The latin masses meant nothing and I escaped the Catholic education system by passing for grammar school.
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@divegeester i would hope the first strike would wipe me out, used to joke about it in 80s, High Wycombe was the base for Strike Command and Bomber Command at time and we also had the USAF base so we were high up the target list, there are still all the underground nuclear bunkers and tunnels, they do tours but not very often
As an atheist, and as intimations of mortality creep up on me, I take great comfort from my conviction that shuffling off this mortal coil is final. Once the physical body has lost its battle with decay then all the other stuff - soul, spirit, whatever - ceases to have any energy and so vanishes. In my rather simplistic philosophy there is no hanging about in limbo, no afterlife, no paradise, no hell, no spiritual emanations, nothing after death. Avoids so much stress and angst!
@Drewnogal saidThere are pros and cons, and a very difficult issue. It might seem that each individual should have the right to make that decision, but in the wrong hands and the wrong family, it might get complicated. However, I have only heard of people who have had the right assistance at the right time.
I’ve been listening to the views on our current assisted dying bill here in the UK. I’d find it really difficult to decide for or against this if I was an MP.