Death and Dying
Posted June 23rd, 2006 @ 05:19pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I've said before and I'll say again that nobody really close to me has ever died. I was not terribly close to my paternal grandma or grandmother. I can't fathom being 80+ and knowing that your time is coming soon as you watch your brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, and perhaps even your children (or theirs) pass on. What a sad feeling that must be.
But if there's one thing to be taken from a funeral, or someone's death, it's the thing most of the older people I saw earlier today seemed to exude: that family matters, that one truly should live each day as if it was his last, and that the little things in life matter.
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Posted 24 Jun 2006 at 6:23pm #
I just posted on your Q&A. Probably should read these things in chronological order! Anyways:
"What a sad feeling that must be."
Actually no. Not at all. In fact, you said half of it yourself:
"...family matters..."
The other half is belief that - something - if greater than all this.
Please Erik, I'm certainly no Jesus freak. Not at all. I'm just saying that if you really do appreciate - emphasis on appreciate - this existance, than maybe you could be open to hope. Hope that something beyond this world is real in ways we simply cannot fathom.
It's that openness that - dammit, I feel a pun coming on - opened my mind to some things that I simply know are not coincidence, yet I cannot explain either.
Posted 03 Jul 2006 at 2:51pm #
My great uncle (maternal grandfather's brother) died earlier this year, and I observed the same thing. They are a great family, and I wish we were closer to them.
On the positive side, I just got back from a family reunion of my father's side, and we all had a blast. It's nice to see that side of the family starting to take more interest in family. Most of us live within 200 miles of each other, yet we rarely get together; hopefully this was the start of a new trend.