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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm afraid of dying. But it's worse losing a loved one. It's unbearable...like looking into the abyss.
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Yes. Me too. This year, I held my mother's hand as she died after the briefest but most painful illness I can imagine. There is nothing mystical about it though. It was biology. It was the most awful moment of my life, and it didn't feel like a transition. It felt like the end. Months later, it still feels like the end.

There doesn't seem to be any movie kind of closure are there. There's so much that she is going to miss and that we are going to miss without her. After my mom's death, I became convinced there is no afterlife. Which is fine with me, for me.

But, facing the ear revocable loss of someone I love, yeah. The abyss is a good word PP.[/quote]

To become convinced there is no afterlife requires as much faith as believing there is an afterlife. Without some kind of unscientific faith there is simply no way of knowing until after we die.  I am a scientifically minded and educated type person and I believe in the afterlife. My reasoning is similar to scientists who believe in life on other planets. If the universe is so immense , there must be more out there than just lonely little earth.  By the same type of intuition the strangeness and complexity of our existence and still the feeling that there must be more than this. There is something inside all of us that is not satisfied in this life. If there is not more it feels empty and pointless. I am a believer in Christ but even if I weren't the intuition and gut feeling is that our purpose and eternal destiny is determined by love and loyalty which are forces beyond time, space, matter and physical laws.[/quote]

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