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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everybody will have a different answer. It depends in part on religion and upbringing. I’m Jewish so I was raised that there is no afterlife. I think believing in one can be very comforting though. I suggest talking to your clergy. [/quote]

I didn't realize that. I'm not necessarily looking for a definitive answer, but just what others believe. I have a hard time conceptualizing what it means to meet someone in an afterlife that you didn't really meet alive. [/quote]

I am agnostic but feel that if there is an afterlife with souls that we would most likely be reincarnated to be around our family/the other souls we like to travel with through eternity.  I also like the idea of children seeking to be born to their family.  So I would wonder if unborn children would be fewer than the number of pregnancies because maybe it would be just one or two souls looking for a chance to rejoin you in the physical world.  I think if you met your children in the afterlife you would feel a sense of love.  However souls commune.  Babies in the womb do start to recognize aspects of their mother as they develop.  Also, mothers apparently carry some fetal cells for life (fetal microchimerism).  I can see there being amazing possibilities for recognition.

I wish you peace of mind and the reunion you seek.[/quote]

The Catholic Church would likely say that since the miscarriages hadn't been baptized, they would be in hell.  Or maybe they just go nowhere.  Don't know.  Best for you to ask a clergy person of your particular faith, as faiths vary as to where the unborn babies end up.

It's very simple for atheists, we just die, like Jews apparently do and like all other living things.  Seems like no one worries about the dead animals, except maybe some dogs that they were attached to. [/quote]
I was raised Catholic and was told the unborn babies are in purgatory.[/quote]

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St Thomas said a fetus is not a baby until quickening with is 40 days for females and 90 days for males. So there is no soul to meet until that time. I don't think he got the timing right but I do thing there is a point a fetus has a soul.

A soul has salvation if it does not get baptized at no fault of their own. (Limbo was never official Catholic doctrine but was fun while it lasted)

I believe certain souls choose a short life, so they were alive as long as they wanted to be.

I also think this is purgatory and if we get it right we gain salvation (even without baptism, nod to my non Catholic friends) and if we don't we recycle through this world again to try to "get it right". Poor MAGA gonna be going through the cycle for a long time or perhaps they have been going through the cycle for a long time already.

They might be there or maybe they are on a new cycle but you should able to see them in whatever cycle they are currently in if you are in heaven or maybe you will need to do a new cycle. IDK.

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“ if we get it right we gain salvation (even without baptism, nod to my non Catholic friends) and if we don't we recycle through this world again to try to "get it right"

This ^ is also basically Hindu philosophy at its core. The soul is eternal. The goal is salvation and merging with the divine. And rebirth until the soul gets it right by realizing it is not the same as the body, which is just a mortal coil, but rather an immortal, eternal essence—unchanging, indestructible, and divine. So death is not the end, but a transition on the journey to salvation. [/quote]

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