Are you happy?

[Extropian]

Hi Lost.......

You have indeed been deeply affected by the death of your Dad and later your husband. Obviously you relied very much on the latter. He must have been a good man for you to miss him so much.

Consider though.......he would have been too loving a husband for him to want you to be so unhappy for so long. Think what he would want for you..............then realise that your happiness was his prime concern in life. That's one reason why you loved him so.

You owe it to his memory and to yourself to have happy memories and to learn to enjoy life without his physical presence, but with those happy memories.

What do you think he'd want for his girl? Wasn't he usually right? Now you need to show yourself you can be right.

I think he'd be pretty happy with that.

Extropian

[ForTheLoveOfAll]

Fortheloveof all, thanks for your response. I read a book by Deepak Chopra, Life After Death - the burden of proof, which dealt with similar ideas. That life is just one phase and death another. That even if our conciousness does not continue, that something of our essense (having a hard time finding the right words) will continue.

I feel that in the least, the material of me will continue on and become other things. It's whether or not our consiousness will survive that change. I don't think it will, but am still hopeful.

Your welcome Consciousness is great, but I would think eternal consciousness would be hell..eventually

It would be. The spice of life is learning new things, and discovering things that were previously unknown. Eternity would give you time to do and know everything. You'd grow tired of it, and when you grow tired of it, you'll go insane.

I'm surprised god hasn't blown his brains out already.

[Asmodean]

1. Are you happy?
- I am content. I'm not all that sure how it differs from "happy", but I prefer not to call it that.

2. Have you had to deal with the loss of anyone that you were really close to?
- Lost both friends and family. Losing friends is more of a trauma in my book.

3. Have you ever wanted to believe in spirituality, life after death, etc...?
- Wanted to..? Maybe in passing, I played with the idea of existing beyond death... But wanting it for myself? Not really.

[terranus]

2. Have you had to deal with the loss of anyone that you were really close to?
- Lost both friends and family. Losing friends is more of a trauma in my book.

Ditto.