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Anymouse
Worshipper of Caffeinea, Goddess of Coffee.
Religious Views: Atheist (formerly Wiccan, with a Discordian bent). Erotic Romance novel editor. Handfasted to BethK, the smartest, coolest, sexiest, brightest atheist here.
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August 13, 2011 at 5:12 pm (This post was last modified: August 13, 2011 at 5:15 pm by Anymouse.)
(August 13, 2011 at 3:13 pm)shadowdancer Wrote: Hi,
I would like to ask, especially to atheists, on how do you perceive death? your death and the people that you love.
Or have you lost someone you love when you have de-converted to athesists?
Sorry I don't want to ask a gloomy question but the following things happened to me in a row:
1. A friend lose his wife due to maternity death
2. Another someone I don't really know, lose his wife also caused by maternity death. The maternity death rate is high in this place.
Both of them, are returning to their God, believe that the women died will go to heaven and get the highest place. Let's not really discuss this stupidity, as this is just one method to ease pain.
3. An then, I watched movie titled "Patch Adams", and he said
Quote:"what's wrong with death? what are we so mortally afraid of? why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity and decency and, God Forbid maybe a sense of humor?"
I still do not have a firm understanding on what death is.
Probably you can also recommend some readings.
Thanks a lot. Hope we live long enough before we die.
As you point out in the movie, with a sense of humour mostly. Death can be quite deadly, and is quite often permanent, zombies, vampires, and such notwithstanding. Wiccans, and Discordians, pretty much have their own individual opinions about it. No book of rules (other than the Principia Discordia, which doesn't say much about it).
As to maternity death, I am sorry for your friends' and your own loss. Not meaning to be tongue-in-cheek about this, in which place do you live? If it is an industrialised nation and has a high maternity death rate, my guess would be the United States.
And as long as there are those that remember them, they are not truly gone. They live on within the lives of others they have touched.
James.
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
