Friday, June 23, 2006
Death Touches You
Watching a rerun of House, M.D. It was a real tear jerker. A man's wife was pregnant and dying and he had to okay the C-section to save his baby. What a heart wrenching decision. While the answer is obvious, in the heat of the moment, it's absolutely horrifying. You're losing your wife and trying to save your child, but you don't want to lose your wife, and she's dying anyway.
Death is something that happens to elderly people. It's not supposed to take someone so young. When you experience the death of someone you care about, especially when they are young, or the same age as you are, it changes you. The grief is overwhelming. Beliefs don't mean a whole lot when the event happens. They might help later.
Death is something that happens to elderly people. It's not supposed to take someone so young. When you experience the death of someone you care about, especially when they are young, or the same age as you are, it changes you. The grief is overwhelming. Beliefs don't mean a whole lot when the event happens. They might help later.
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You would think that beliefs would help, and the more specific the better concerning the reassuring details of an afterlife.
At the same time, I can't say that in my personal experience I've noticed believers facing suffering and death, when it really comes to them, more easily than others do.
At the same time, I can't say that in my personal experience I've noticed believers facing suffering and death, when it really comes to them, more easily than others do.
Loss is loss, faith, hope, promise, that is what life is and that is what is lost. Ones' belief system is to restore some of what is lost, not to replace the loss.
We all have beliefs, big and small. And much of it don't have any good bases. Much of it is very confusing and separative, causing a lot of division among people. Belief in a personal or household gods, in one's own country or culture, and in ones own personal history, family, and relatives, can clutter your mind so much you can't think clearly anymore.
Beliefs are for people who can't live without them, out of fear, for what could possibly happen to themselves and their loved ones.
We are not used to staring into the unknown.
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Beliefs are for people who can't live without them, out of fear, for what could possibly happen to themselves and their loved ones.
We are not used to staring into the unknown.
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