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Originally Posted by willravel
Answer: Assuming the existence of an afterlife, mourning the dead isn't actually mourning the dead, it's morning yourself. You're feeling badly because you won't see them until you die.
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Cart before the horse. Its the seeing them when you die mythology thats the comfort. Its not the waiting period that causes the grief, its the death.
If I KNEW without doubt that a loved one would be there for me after their death, I'd be sad at their parting but I wouldn't be grief stricken. It would suck and it would be hard depending on how close they were, but I'd have to be really self absorbed to cry grief stricken over a few years in the face of eternity. It would be childish and petty. Billions and billions of years in our future and I'm weeping over a few decades?
So back to my original questions....
Lets try this one....
A mans entire family has been killed by a house fire 10 years ago.
He now has terminal cancer.
Do you tell him how wonderful it is?