Reply #29: as this thread is already full of all kinds of heretical stuff, considering it is an obit [View All]

i just want to say that overall, i am amazed not at the people on du who profess some kind of religion, but at how many think loved ones will be reunited in death....having lost someone near and dear to me, i have to admit to never having that fantasy, though i think of him every day. when someone kindly says you'll see him in heaven it does absolutely nothing for me. so, if you say that to someone who is like me, don't expect that they will like you for it. i would do anything to get him back, and i live each day knowing that will not happen. i wouldn't say to you as a grieving parent/spouse 'what at tragedy you will never see him/her again' but that is what i truly believe. don't try to ameliorate pain with your own religious beliefs, and i won't with my 'beliefs.'

when i saw this dunne obit come up, i remembered hearing him once talk about his daughters death and his true crime books or novels (i haven't read any) and thinking about how death in the family changes families. this, right after one of the most tragic death related families i have heard of loses a second member tragic in the losing but not the circumstances at least.