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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have had some pretty bad anxiety about death ever since my mother died a year ago.  Watching her die made it very real to put it simply, plus not having the buffer of a generation between me and oblivion makes it seem much closer.

My sister and I have discussed these worries to some extent, but she is Catholic so has that luxury of believing/hoping in an afterlife.  [/quote]

I went to a Catholic mass of my 33-year-old friend, Rob, who died from a blood clot 30 minutes after he proposed to his girlfriend. The priest spent most of the time conducting a normal mass and then explained that we should all be very jealous of Rob because he got to be with God before we did. I wanted to shout out "Maybe God should have run that one by Rob first." It made me hard to understand how anyone could ever truly find comfort from Catholicism. But I tried to bite my tongue, thinking that if this nonsense somehow made Rob's mother or fiancé somehow feel better, it didn't really matter that it made me want to vomit.[/quote]

OMG, that is horrible.  I can't believe anyone would say that.

"For some reason, nothing so infuriates me as the incapacity of seemingly intelligent people to get it through their heads that God doesn't go around this world with his fingers on triggers, his fists around knives, his hands on steering wheels. God is dead set against all unnatural deaths. And Christ spent an inordinate amount of time delivering people from paralysis, insanity, leprosy, and muteness. Which is not to say that there are no nature-caused deaths — I can think of many right here in this parish in the five years I've been here — deaths that are untimely and slow and pain-ridden, which for that reason raise unanswerable questions, and even the specter of a Cosmic Sadist — yes, even an Eternal Vivisector. But violent deaths, such as the one Alex died — to understand those is a piece of cake. As his younger brother put it simply, standing at the head of the casket at the Boston funeral, "You blew it, buddy. You blew it." The one thing that should never be said when someone dies is "It is the will of God." Never do we know enough to say that. [b]My own consolation lies in knowing that it was not the will of God that Alex die; that when the waves closed over the sinking car, God's heart was the first of all our hearts to break.[/b]"

William Sloane Coffin[/quote]

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