Posted by:
Cookie Monster
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Date: October 30, 2011 12:40AM
I've been lucky enough to have had very few people close to me die.
However, my father in-law died recently and I'm taking it way harder than any of his more closely related relatives. Part of the reason is that I was fairly close to him. The other, and I think more major, part is that I am not comforted by a belief that I will see him again in a "here after" and I am really going to miss him.
Long ago I made peace with the fact that when I die, I'm not going anywhere - all the atoms that make up me will still be here but my consciousness will not. But I guess I forgot to make the same peace with the idea that this also applies to people who die before I do. And I can't really talk to any of my friends or family about this because they would not understand.
Any advice on how to deal with this?