WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE?
March 6th 2007 06:26
Last night I got the news that a friend of mine had died, suddenly and unexpectedly, under tragic circumstances that I wont go into here.
Her passing has got me thinking………..
What happens when you die?
For her sake, or more so for my sake, when I think of her? I hope there is a heaven of some kind and she meets up with friends and family who have already “crossed over”, this is a very comforting thought for me, as I imagine it would be for her husband and her two young girls left behind. However, she was not particularly religious and we never really discussed this issue, it simply never came up in any conversation, so I am not at all sure what her beliefs were on this subject.
Having said that I hope there is a heaven, I do not consider myself a religious person and I believe that we are all part of a much larger collective consciousness and when we leave the earthly plain our spirit or energy returns to the collective, to be recycled and reborn again and again, until we attain nirvana.
I think, that’s what I believe, sometimes I don’t know what I think and sometimes I don’t think I think enough about what happens when you die, and I probably should.
I would really be interested in hearing your thoughts on this…………..
Her passing has got me thinking………..
What happens when you die?
For her sake, or more so for my sake, when I think of her? I hope there is a heaven of some kind and she meets up with friends and family who have already “crossed over”, this is a very comforting thought for me, as I imagine it would be for her husband and her two young girls left behind. However, she was not particularly religious and we never really discussed this issue, it simply never came up in any conversation, so I am not at all sure what her beliefs were on this subject.
Having said that I hope there is a heaven, I do not consider myself a religious person and I believe that we are all part of a much larger collective consciousness and when we leave the earthly plain our spirit or energy returns to the collective, to be recycled and reborn again and again, until we attain nirvana.
I think, that’s what I believe, sometimes I don’t know what I think and sometimes I don’t think I think enough about what happens when you die, and I probably should.
I would really be interested in hearing your thoughts on this…………..
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Comment by Tracy
Movies and Life
I'm sorry about your friend dying, that is sad news.
This is something that I've been thinking about recently. I'm not traditionally religious, rather I take aspects from a few religions and live my life accordingly. I also like to believe there is a heaven or a place where we go to rest together. For me, I like to think of my sister as finally being in peace, physically and emotionally, in heaven's pub having a large vodka and tonic, singing really loudly to The Smiths, waving a ciggie around. She would know other people up there, but they probably wouldn't be in the pub, more likely the lounge area of heaven where she would go to rest.
My thoughts are with you,
Tracy
Comment by Miss Nomer
Thanks for the wise words, it reminded me of the idea of heaven in "Lovely Bones", everybody's heaven is different, thats a nice thought.
I've just had news of another death......feeling pretty taken aback, this one was not so unexpected but sstill way to young and seems so unfair......Anyhow I am quietly sad and reflective so I wont go on, just wanted to say thanks...
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Miss Nomer
Comment by Tracy
Movies and Life
I haven't read Lovely Bones, I just read a little about it and it sounds intriguing but maybe confronting (I sometimes find books/films about death hard to read/watch).
I'm sorry to hear about your other friend dying, what an awful time for you.
Comment by Miss Nomer
I did find Lovely Bones confronting, might read it again, I remember after I read it the first time I made a real effort to catch up with family and friends and appreciate the relationships that I have.
Thanks for the kind words
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Miss Nomer
Comment by Kleonaptra
Kalikapsychosis
I, like you believe in something that may be communal(in a way) and conciouss(in a way) but I dont think 'recycled' is the right word.
I love that as humanity gets older the sense of 'self' gets that much stronger. Many of us are not so religious as we had to be years ago, and, like Tracy,
Only need to use certain concepts and principles rather than an entire lifestyle to find our way. I do this and I know many people that do, strong willed people. It is that self that creates heaven, creates hell. That self which decides to be reborn. Free will goes further than we imagine.
I like to give advice and I have great faith in 'the Great Order of Things' but when it comes to grief I just lose it. I wouldnt know what to do in your position for awhile Miss Nomer. I know I would just hate everything for awhile. I sometimes wonder what sick freak of a God would put that kind of feeling in ANY of its creatures.
And when Im happy, I thank God for every sweet breath because all the tinyest things seem too sweet and too perfect and I wonder what a genius he was to think it up at all.....
I told you it was a tough topic.
Comment by Miss Nomer
Comment by Lilla
From The Home Front
Enviro Warrior
Dream Herald
Esoteric Bookshop
The best account I have ever had (apart from my own near death experience), is found in the current version of Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (red and gold cover). It is the one book that fearlessly pursues this question through the entire logic of our existance in the universe and the purpose of it without fire and brimstone ... albeit through the complete philosophy of Buddhism, but without the hype of the American Best Seller, or the fluff of New Age Spirituality, or indeed the BIG Mystery of 'only we know and you can't possibly know' unless you go through us, of today's Christianity.
Enough truth perhaps, to at least add to the other pieces of the jigsaw we have found in other religions and philosophy's from around the world. The one great truth of course, that it doesn;t matter what we believe death to be, as long as we are reconcilled with it by the time it is upon us... to allow that all important last thought to be a REALLY GOOD ONE!
I highly recommend it to anyone pondering this question and i hope you get a chance to explore its pages, and add conclusions perhaps, to the modality of your daily lifestyle.
Lilla ...