tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23780159.post9010211973919398621..comments2022-11-10T08:20:53.893-05:00Comments on Living With CML: I have been thinking............Annie - Steven's momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09686206651106377099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23780159.post-3908193939196080752008-09-03T14:43:00.000-05:002008-09-03T14:43:00.000-05:00I like this post....helpful to read and think abou...I like this post....helpful to read and think about people that I miss that have gone to the "other side". I think of "Rest in Peace" as being a wish for a respite from pain, stress, illness. Recently, a mother of a friend of mine passed away and I went to the visitation, in my younger years, I did not like to look at dead bodies, it really disturbed me, this did not...she looked peaceful and younger. It was comforting.hockeychichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166959347224883175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23780159.post-67731239050805499012008-08-29T21:40:00.000-05:002008-08-29T21:40:00.000-05:00Hmmmm....I agree with your thoughts & wishes &...Hmmmm....<BR/><BR/>I agree with your thoughts & wishes & love the L.I.L. Your descriptions of the afterlife mirror my concepts.<BR/><BR/>I know the Rest in Peace comes from a wish that the soul be free from trouble while awaiting Judgment Day, but I don't really believe in Judgment Day.<BR/><BR/>I have, however, been with someone whose death was a prolonged & painful, agony. Resting in peace was high on my list of wishes for him, not eternally, but transitionally. I wished for him a state of grace beyond pain, serenity. We all went through similar with Penny. <BR/><BR/>Same with my cat who died in my bed after days of increasing misery. <BR/><BR/>In death, their bodies & faces were transformed into youthful, prediseased states, the pain gone at long last. The grimace relaxed into, well, peace. They looked more like I rememberd them than they had in a long time.<BR/><BR/>Maybe we are whooshed into the afterlife instantly. We have all heard of the tunnel & the white light. Maybe time has no meaning. But I sense there is a tranquil space between the pain & the afterlife orientation. Peace.<BR/><BR/>So I hope they are all frolicking & enjoying an afterlife beyond their wildest dreams, & ours. Surely there is 'liquid bread' for Charlie, fields of mousies for Figaro to chase, endless enchantment for all.<BR/><BR/>But when death came, I was thinking, feeling, wishing: RIP. <BR/><BR/>Gloria aka FigAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com