03-21-2017, 09:57 AM
I feel so much spiritual angst about death, about why life is worth living!
http://www.thawingout.org/index.php/2017...-on-death/
See below for an excerpt:
"I remember my client’s wife-turned-widow, sitting by her husband’s body. I see her force his eyelids open to ask him, “Can you see me?” I listen as she tells me how cold his body is becoming, and I watch as she presses his whitened finger nails. I smell his body, which does not smell pleasant after all it’s been through over the past 12 hours. Then I look at my boyfriend, who is very much alive and well. His eyes see me, his hands are warm, and his fingernails bright pink. All I smell is the body wash he uses to shower. And I wonder if someday I will squeeze my husband’s hand – and won’t get a squeeze back...."
http://www.thawingout.org/index.php/2017...-on-death/
See below for an excerpt:
"I remember my client’s wife-turned-widow, sitting by her husband’s body. I see her force his eyelids open to ask him, “Can you see me?” I listen as she tells me how cold his body is becoming, and I watch as she presses his whitened finger nails. I smell his body, which does not smell pleasant after all it’s been through over the past 12 hours. Then I look at my boyfriend, who is very much alive and well. His eyes see me, his hands are warm, and his fingernails bright pink. All I smell is the body wash he uses to shower. And I wonder if someday I will squeeze my husband’s hand – and won’t get a squeeze back...."
I am a Texan-born Bostonian. You can find me at http://www.thawingout.org