(March 25, 2010 at 5:00 am)fr0d0 Wrote: All talk of an afterlife is just bollocks. Sympathy isn't talking shit - it's offering realistic comfort... stuff like we remember the good times, note the persons influence, ... focussing on the positives and celebrating the life rather than letting our loss stop us functioning. Pointing out the necessity for grief and tears and the healing properties of that.
And you can do all that without lying about what you believe.

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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