Originally posted by MrHandThank you. I'm going to order that book. 🙂
Evey and also GP, I'm very sorry for your losses.
Evey,
I do believe that there is something after death. I believe that the soul lives on. One book that led me to believe this is Forever Ours: Real Stories of Immortality and Living from a Forensic Pathologist by Janis Amatuzio.
Time will help you more than anything. Keep moving on. Peace will come eventually, perhaps slowly, but it will come.
I'm 71 and getting older by the day. Lost many friends, parants, youngest brother and will never get used to it. However, as a Buddhist there is the belief no death. Energy is indestructable and its eternal. This shell of a body means nothing, but that something inside (energy) is eternal. A question was once ask: " where is your soul; in your arm, your leg, your liver, your head, etc. If these parts were removed, would you still be you?" That intangible goes on and on. How, where, and why, is the big question. None of us has the answer or we would all have the answer. As to your situation; my loved ones departed have only grown in my esteme over time. They have become nearly saintly with time. I hope this might help you.
Originally posted by Evil Pawn 666Thank you. You words mean a lot to me.
I'm 71 and getting older by the day. Lost many friends, parants, youngest brother and will never get used to it. However, as a Buddhist there is the belief no death. Energy is indestructable and its eternal. This shell of a body means nothing, but that something inside (energy) is eternal. A question was once ask: " where is your soul; in your a ...[text shortened]... n my esteme over time. They have become nearly saintly with time. I hope this might help you.
I also have this idea about energy and it not being able to be extinguished, as matter is. I know what you mean.
Thanks again.
Originally posted by CoconutHow old was she?
My closest was this past October.
Was out with a friend. We weren't close close, but had a history and we (at least I) was hoping to start seeing her more often.
Left her house 11pm. 5 hours later her mom calls to ask if I know where she is. 2 hours later they find her in the garage in a self-administered fatal position.
So I spent the rest of the w ...[text shortened]... but the best you can do is learn from the past, and use it to serve the people we still have.
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Originally posted by Evey HammondSorry for your loss Evey. I agree with you and Evil666 that energy dosen't die, only transforms. That's how it works with the sun, trees-coal-heat-dispersed. I also agree with divegeester becasue Jesus's words make sense to me.
Who, among you, has had someone close to them die? I'm sure many of you. What was your experience? Do you believe in life after death?
Thx,
Evey
I've never lost someone I was close to it's much sadder when it's someone you should be close to but aren't. The funeral was full of people I'd never met and should have been full of my cloest friends and family. Be thankful for the relationship you had, is what I say.
Also when my granny died, this is what I said to my childern, don't be sad. She had a great life, she forfilled all her dreams, she travelled the world had four childern and a husband who loved her and lots of grandchildern who visited her and listened to her advice. She was never poor or starving. Then my friends doughter died and I had nothing to say.
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Originally posted by Hand of HecateMoreover, what is a "self-administered fatal position"?
My money is on 16. This would give her at least a full year for the Cocotouching to set in and drive her into a suicidal shame spiral.
Technically, if a person dates Coconut, is that person self-administering a fatal position?
Edit. Good idea for a thread!
Originally posted by SeitseSadly, life is fatal. Nonetheless, I imagine a Catholic school girl uniform, a rope over the rafters and a tumbled workshop stool. A gentle breeze spins the pale corpse with almost poetic tenderness. Beautiful in an eerie sort of way.
Moreover, what is a "self-administered fatal position"?
Technically, if a person dates Coconut, is that person self-administering a fatal position?
Edit. Good idea for a thread!