(August 29, 2012 at 12:19 am)TaraJo Wrote: Y'know, sometimes I kinda envy the religious people of the world.
A friend recently died and there's a memorial tomorrow for him. It struck me how 'gone' he is. I mean, if I was a Christian, I could take comfort my belief that he's in heaven. The same would apply to any other religious belief system, really, as long as it includes some form of afterlife. I don't see any evidence that any afterlife exists so instead of being able to take comfort that he's out there somewhere, he's just 'gone.' I actually wish I could take comfort in believing in an afterlife, but I can't make myself believe an unsubstantiated lie.
Does anyone here have any ideas on how to take comfort in a friend's death?
That's a real toughie. I have recently started to gain comfort with the finality of death by realising that it is an inescapable fact for every living creature. We're all equal at the end, and I don't feel like I'm missing out.
That helps me face my own mortality, but it's not really a solution to cope with grieving for another. Sorry.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
