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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  I'm not trying to sound insensitive, but I don't really understand this. Presumably if you were religious to begin with you knew that all people died eventually.  So is this reasoning usually just people who never reconciled the idea of death within their religion? I'm also not talking about people who say "there is no god" in the heat of their grief, but people who 20 yrs down the road still don't believe in god because of a specific person's death.[/quote]

I left my church after my father died, but I did not lose my individual faith, just my faith in community and congregations.  My experience, unfortunately, is not unusual.  The support of time, talent and treasure that I poured into my Congregation for fifteen years to  help create a community of support and love  was non-existent when it came to be my time to require support.  I have always believed in adding to the pool and helping people along the way - partly because it was the right thing to do, but also so that there was a supportive community on which I could lean and take from the pool when my time came.  It came and the pool was dry.  And frankly, my bar was fairly low.  All it would have taken would have been a few visits and a few phone calls over the nine months that I cared for my father in our home. [/quote]

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