(March 5, 2013 at 5:42 am)DrFreud Wrote: What are some ways that you cope and deal with the pain of losing a loved one, as atheists?
I acknowledge my feelings of grief, express them, and I think comforting things, about how my loved one will never know pain or strife again. They want for nothing now, and their molecules will go on to support more life. Through the law of the conservation of mater, everything that my loved one consisted of is still here, and will be until the end of time (if there is an end). I take comfort in knowing we are made of the stuff of stars. I take comfort in knowing, one day, I too will enter an eternal dreamless sleep, aware of nothing, just as it is when you have a dreamless sleep. My body will still exist as matter, and through the laws of conservation of matter, I am made immortal, just like my loved one, just like your loved one, just like everyone else. And we will go on traversing this incredible galaxy, just as we have, and just as we will continue to do.
