The Raptor

Thanks, all.

zeroptzero

You can say that you are ahead of the class Dave.

Kyras

George, a best friend is so missed! I'm sorry for Anne Marie's agony.

I cried my heart out when my dog, Kyras, died. Not much at all when my parents died.

dlq04

lol

The Raptor

What?

buckeyesue

I am so sorry to hear of the loss of Anne Marie's best friend, Lynn.

It is very difficult to lose a best friend of so many years.

boltonblue

George, We talk about our friends passing away.
At our age they have had a somewhat ful life.

We were talking with one of our sons yesterday.
Jon was recounting he had just lost a friend who had struggled with their mental health for the last year.
Jon said they hadn't 'missed the red flags." They did everything they could to support him and he was in the system.
The system just sucks. Al of the little hurdles of forms and paperwork made it tougher to fight the battle.
The battle ended Friday with a suicide, Jon's friend was 29.

zeroptzero

Imagine passing away and seeing all of the loved ones on the other side, friends , family, pets. You then look back and say why did we spend so much time grieving them when we all would be together again someday. I know many people in our Italian community who lost family members and they spend the rest of their lives grieving, never enjoying life. There has to be a balance between grieving , and moving on with life, I know it can be hard for many.

S2KRAY

Sorry for your wife’s friend loss, My father in law died from kidney failure 5 years after his wife died. He was also suffering from a broken heart. My Dad took his life at age 59. I suffered from grief for a time but realized that I had a young family to support and they needed me. We will meet again some day but life goes on until that day.

cosmomiller

Yes indeed. You are spot on. With the perspective of our souls living forever, a death is really just the departure of that person until we arrive at the state of life they are in (or in some cases we don't arrive where they are forever). Life is just a period of time, incredibly short in view of eternity, that we choose if we want to live with God or don't want to live with God forever. We get free choice and our decision is final on death.

As the youngest of my large extended family and relatives, I am very much looking forward to seeing my loved ones again when I had so little real time to do so on this earth. In a few short years, we will all be there.