Hi...I really do appreciate your efforts, but just being honest here, no, your post didn't help me. To go from a place of believing with all my heart that the essence of, say, my mother, the children in my life, my friends...that their eternal spirit continues on forever after their shell has literally rotted away...believing this so strongly to thinking their decayed matter is all that's left of them, that an atom of their rotted physical form might be a part of a flower, a small part, and that there is nothing more of them that lives on, well, no, that isn't enough for me, is a really hard pill for me to swallow.
I remember what the actress Ann-Margret once said about her deceased parents..."I wouldn't be able to go on if I thought I would never see my parents again." So, the flower thing isn't enough for me, although I'm trying so hard to be brave and make it enough. Wish I could go back in time when I "believed", but once you have left that possible safety/playpen, there is no going back. A Christian friend once said to me, "Just play dumb and believe." There is no going back and playing dumb.
I do appreciate you and your help, though.
Annie
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Originally Posted by ThatGirl109
I don't think that we just cease to exist as soon as we die. And I don't really believe in God or any particular religion's afterlife. But let me throw something at you that always makes me feel better: we are made of stardust. When stars exploded to form the earth, and the earth formed us--if you don't believe in the Big Bang or evolution, that's cool--we were made from the same materials...stardust. I just find that fascinating. Like, you look up into the night sky and say, 'hey, you might be my Uncle'. Just kidding, but it makes us seem a lot less...insignificant. Also with your biomass idea...when we die, our matter is given back to the earth. There is always the same amount of matter in the earth. So eventually, you'll become a flower, or a long-lasting ROCK, or maybe even a 'brand-new' little human. Because we're all recycled. How very efficient!! So just because you die does not mean you do not move on. You do, in other forms! I hope this helps you!
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