the associated utility for humans, certainly places animal death in the background of daily life
death, dying & religion
grief in the internet age
Grief has evolved into an individual experience, to the extent that public expression can be contentious and confusing...
taming death
distance bred a sense of uncertainty and anxiety, allowing death to become something ‘wild’ and in need of being tamed
the echo of god
the purpose of god, is to abate the fear of knowing yourself and connect you with your own conscience.
thinking about life after death
I immediately felt guilty for my answer – like I had spat in the face of everything I cherish in the world. Like I didn’t care for its impermanence. Like I didn’t hope it would survive beyond its physical limitations.
how i comfort myself in the face of death without a certain god
that is what gives me comfort - that i have been allowed some completely strange and impossible period of time to experience something so unlikely.