SouthpawGlamour
Slum Mum Peace Corps
Interesting, I like. I believe in an afterlife myself. And may I ask, what do you do that you've seen hundreds of people die in peace? Gosh, I go from playing hangman to this -what a contrast...
Anyway, Mozzy1 -not a silly question at all. I think it's something everyone thinks about at some point or another. It's only natural.
I went thru a period in my life in grade school when it was all I could think about. I don't know why, at the time my grandparents were alive and well and nobody I knew had passed (tho my gramps was about to have ALS -hmm, premonition?) but I was so consumed with worrying about dying -in and of itself- that it contributed to my insomnia (this was right around the time I got into late night football -go Steelers =o) and I don't know what snapped me out of it, but I was cool until my poli-sci class in High School... and we were talking about nuclear war and inwardly, I was freaking out like it could happen tomorrow. Very much a wake-up call -not so much to self but life as we know it... and I think this is why I made the "Revolution" video for my A/V project... I've had a couple of friends pass in college and that hit me pretty hard -someone my age, that close to me dying- but I think I was young enough to somehow deny and let it roll off my back (after the initial grieving, of course)...
anyway... I don't think about death too much but when my step-dad passed 8 years ago, it brought it to the forefront of my mind again. Coincidentally, it was THEN that I decided to be cremated as well. Anyway, I have since found a wonderful church home and tho I have always been a spiritual person, I am much more closer to God/Jesus -or whatever the powers that be are- and on one hand, I am fine and firm with my beliefs and those of the afterlife but on the other hand, I do still think about my mortality from time to time -that death clock didn't help plus I think having children makes you think about it more often. The thought of THEM being without a mother or growing up to know me literally kills me.
I just hope I am living the life that was intended for me and making a difference so that my life will not have been in vain. I will say that I don't stress about death on a daily basis -I'm a fairly optimistic person- and I'd like to think that I do -or strive to- live each day to it's fullest as much as that's possible. Don't worry about tomorrow for today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
edit: oh yeah. I hope I go 'peacefully'
I didn't say people die in peace, I said death is a state of complete peace.
I don't believe in an afterlife or a god.
I am the manager of a dementia/nursing unit.