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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 07:58 AM
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Nobody ever dies.
I just had a rather comforting thought.

Nobody ever dies.

When someone close to us "dies"...they remain in our hearts forever.

Their memories cannot die.

They are not here physically anymore, but they have touched us, and they remain with us.

So in a sense, they are never really gone.

They can even still give us advice...for example..."What would this person do in this situation"?

Also, we can still "see" them in our minds.

So in several senses, they are not gone.

Oh well...just my thoughts...for what they are worth.
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:01 AM
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1. I talk to my mom all the time
I feel her When I garden, I see her in my children.
She passed away 6 years ago.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:02 AM
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2. The same with my dad.
the only problem is, he died 37 years ago. the memories fade every year, but they are still there. :hi: :thumbsup:
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zanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:06 AM
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3. I gave my mom some Cosmo flowers a few days ago....
I pick her a big bouquet of them every year because they're her favorite flower. This year, I had to put them on her gravestone, but I think that somehow, somewhere, her spirit appreciates it.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:08 AM
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4. I believe you are correct...
we are too complicated, I believe, for our spirits to just fade away after our bodies die. :thumbsup: :hi:
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 11:20 AM
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7. actually the more complicated the plumbing the easier to clog the drain
we die all right, or as woody allen put it, i don't want to be immortal thru my work, i want to be immortal by living forever

having an imaginary conversation w. someone who is gone and putting words in their mouth is not them living forever, it's me changing their memory into whatever it is psychologically convenient to me for them to be

they're not only dead, their memory becomes plastic and gets changed to make me more comfortable, which would plenty tick off some of the dead people i've known, if we're honest with ourselves about it
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 11:41 AM
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8. I disagree
First of all, I don't think I said anything about an imaginary conversation.

Nor, did I mention the "changing" of any memories. I am speaking of remembering them exactly how they were.

And in my case, memories of my loved ones do not become plastic.

But that's just me.

So, if they exist as memories to me, they still exist in a sense.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 12:06 PM
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10. Dude, save your breath.
DU's own Ray of Sunshine can't resist pissing all over threads like this.
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 12:08 PM
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11. Gotcha, and thank you...
:hi:
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:19 AM
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5. Phillboy
I still talk to my mom and dad....
and my 2 brothers.....
as crazy as it sounds
They let me know they are listening to......

:hug: :hug:


lost
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 08:20 AM
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6. ...
:hug: :hug:
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 12:03 PM
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9. Star Trek Red Shirts Do
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:hi:



No one ever dies, the body does, but not the spirit :hi:
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 12:09 PM
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12. Those shirts never die...
they just fade to pink. :hi: :thumbsup:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 01:36 PM
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13. My dear philboy...
I'm not in the mood much today for posting...

But your thread is so compelling that I had to respond...

And I agree completely!

I have a couple of little poems (not written by me) that illustrate how I feel about this:

Life is eternal;

And love is immortal;

And death is only a horizon;

And a horizon is nothing

Save the limit of our sight.

And this one too:

Grieve not,

Nor think of me with tears

But laugh

And talk to me as if I were beside you

I loved you so...

'Twas heaven here

With you


Thank you for this lovely and thoughtful thread...:hug:
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 01:38 PM
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14. My grandmother shows up in my dreams quite often...
My wife says that "she has come to visit."

I like to think so.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 01:41 PM
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15. That's a nice thought.
I feel that is true, until everyone you knew is also gone. I guess I will always live on in my descendents though. Or if my artwork or stories ever survive.

:shrug:
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-21-07 02:10 PM
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16. I thought that when my father died 8 years ago.
Not sure I really see it that way now. Maybe to a limited degree. Part of the reason is that I am now okay with life being temporary.
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