after-death

We must make time to reflect on life.Someday this life will be gone.

The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

The sun still, surprisingly, came up and shone down onto the cold, metal leftovers. No loud noises. No screams. No breaking glass. Just silence and sunshine. You would be forgiven for thinking that this all happened on another planet. It didn__.

Decades after little Colleen__ death, my sister Kathy still loves her daughter dearly. Colleen was born with cerebral palsy. She died in Kath__ arms in a rocking chair at the age of six. They were listening to a music box that looked very much like a smiling pink bunny.The opening quote in this book, __ will love you forever, but I__l only miss you for the rest of my life,_ is from Kath__ nightly prayers to her child.Colleen couldn__ really talk or walk very well, but loved untying my mother__ tennis shoes and then laughing. When Mom died decades later we sent her off in tennis shoes so Colleen would have something to untie in Heaven.In the meantime, Dad had probably been taking really good care of her up there. He must have been aching to hug her for all of her six years on earth.Mom__ spirit comes back to play with great grandchildren she__ never met or had a chance to love while she was still _ I almost said __mong the living._ In my family, though, the dead don__ always stay that way. You can be among the living without technically being alive. Mom comes back to play, but Dad shows up only in emergencies. They are both watching over their loved ones.__he Mourning After_ is dedicated to all those we have had the joy of loving before they__e slipped away to the other side.It then celebrates the joy of re-unions.

The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

Do I have anything to lose? This life will be gone one day to the Creator who gave it.

After death, I will lose my opportunity to complain so I will accept everything with love.

I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering_ I just don__ understand why he__ able to hang on to information like that, while so many other more important memories evaporate. Then again, I suppose so much of what stays with us is often insignificant. The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather__ll the things so unimportant they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren__. I often think of the Chinese red bathrobe I had when I was twenty-seven years old; the sound of our first cat Charlie__ feet on the linoleum of our old house; the hot rarefied air around aluminum pot the moment before the kernels of popcorn burst open. I think of these things as often as I think about getting married or giving birth or the end of the Second World War. What is truly amazing is that before you know it, sixty years go by and you can remember maybe eight or nine important events, along with a thousand meaningless ones. How can that be?You want to think there__ a pattern to it all because it makes you feel better, gives you some sense of a reason why we__e here, but there really isn__ any. People look for God in these patterns, these reasons, but only because they don__ know where else to look.Things happen to us: some of it important, most of it not, and a little of it stays with us till the end. What stays after that? I__l be damned if I know.(pp.174-175)

I'll love you forever, even when I can't.

Hasn__ stopped us before. And besides, if they wanted to kill us, we__ be dead by now and would be having an entirely different conversation. I wonder if I__ still be mad at you, or if we would talk in words or pictures. Maybe in smells. That would be cool._ -Janco

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

[Charlie is dying:]After what seemed a long while, but hadn__ been, Marsh gave Paulette__ hand a warm and caring squeeze. __hey__e here for him,_ she said.But their heavenly visitors didn__ take him right away. They had to make room for the chaos of modern medical urgencies. To get out of the way of well-trained professionals who had dedicated their lives to holding back Heaven.Choppers are just as noisy and turbulent as we imagine them to be. One tore in over the hills and shattered every bit of peace Charlie otherwise could have lost himself into.In an instant the Med-Evac team was all over him. In the midst of that blatant orchestrated chaos Paulette fought to find her peace, and to hold him inside it.__ang on, buddy,_ techs kept telling him. __on__ go leaving us now. You just hang in there.__ut they didn__ understand, Paulette thought. It was his time.The chopper made a horrible racket carrying him off. Marsh, Paulette, and Ailana held their peace as its winds whipped their world into a froth.Harve__ face twisted with something that might conceivably have been rage.Then, all of a sudden, the birds sang, as though someone had given them a cue. __o that__ what it__ like,_ Marsha said, very softly.__he afterlife.__y God, it__ so beautiful.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.