Personally I experienced the death of my mother from cancer in 1994 and witnessed her last exhaling gasp. To me it was like her spirit being freed from her physical body. The same is true when Celia collapsed on the bathroom floor and I heard her last gasp. It makes me believe we are all spirits having a human experience. What is life without hope?
The following is from the book 'Healing After Loss' by Martha W. Hickman:
There is a way in which reason fights against the possibility of life beyond death. We see the body suddenly devoid of life, of spirit. Where has it gone? We do not want to be duped, even for our own comfort. How can a spirit live without its lifetime clothing?
And yet...we want so badly to believe there is more, and that we shall know one another again. The religions of humankind have described a frame for us on which we can hang belief. We have stories, hunches, hopes. We have visitations and dreams, and we know of lives made over by the force of what cannot be seen or measured.
So to be on the safe side, we express our uncertainty, our skepticism, and then from somewhere comes the intuitive flash of faith, and the stories, and we are lifted up on wings...and we fly!
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