re: How Do You Deal With Death?

I lost my mom when I was 10. No one's death, including my dad's, has affected me as much since then. It was very hard at the time but I learned early to accept death. My kids are grown and losing one of them would hurt some, but I could deal with it. Admittedly, losing one of my grand kids would challenge my courage.

I do believe in an after-life. I worked in the hospital right out of high school. I got to know a lot of patients that eventually died. Then I had to handle there dead bodies. No one will ever convince me that a person's spirit, life force, soul, or whatever it was that occupied that empty shell, just ceased to exist.

There's something behind a person's eyes that I believe will always exist in some form or another. Like water. It's either liquid water, or water vapor, or ice, or steam. Or it's hydrogen and oxygen molecules. But it never really goes away. I'm sure some scholar will disagree and prove me wrong, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. So I look at dying as going on to the next great adventure. Makes it more palatable.