a friend of mine died
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Originally posted by Aleck:
[b] …and here’s another hug from me to all of you as well.–Aleck[/b]
aleck, thank you, and no apologies needed…the thing that drew me to the sadboard was that aside from the humor, which i really need, there are a lot of really bright and thoughtful people out there who made me think…i too do not have the solace of a traditional christian view of the afterlife; i make do with vague ideas of lifeforces as you say too important to be crushed by mere physical death, and like you when i think of a loved one’s death, i not only hide, i very superstitiously try to think of my own death, i guess to draw any bad karma onto myself rather than them…how’s that for silly? i guess it’s my own primitive attempts at magickal thinking but it soothes me that i may have soothed the gods into ignoring my loved ones for awhile (can you believe a ‘rational’ scientific type is admitting to this) but i guess death makes children of us all…the only thing i can say for chronic illness is that it gives you the survivor time to coome to terms with death and actually welcome it when you can no longer stand to see your loved ones suffer, or in a state you know they would not wish to be in…it also gives you time to set things right so you won’t have to waste time with “i wish i had” later…love to you aleck, i’m always glad to see you visit