Jutu posted:Not live forever, but I want to be absolutely "ready", having done/accomplished all I wanted to do/accomplish, and of course I want to go before my kids.
Although I do know it happens all too many times, I agree that no parent should have to bury a child and that has to be one of the most difficult things for a parent to do when/if that times comes. I'm one that believes that the spirit/soul continues to live on, after the body dies, and if you believe in eternity then the span of a human life, whether one year or one hundred years is essentiall the same moment in (eternal) time. Still the grief of losing a child or loved one, even a pet, is something I don't cherish as a part of living.
Many people though look at things, as they have to, from a human perspective and it seems all to eggreagous when someone loses their life at an early age. As I indicated above if you believe in eternity (no beginning/no ending time) then any measure of time essentially drops out of the equation and one year or one thousands years is essentially, with respect to eternity, the same point on the time line. Not knowing what is on the other side of physical life we may consider dying young such a loss but from a Spiritual perspective physical life could be a burdeon and existance outside the physical body's restraints could be something far more beneficial and glorious. Those things we just don't know and, as i said, can only be considered from a fleshly, human perspective and from that perspective it is such a loss, unfair and grievious. Even thinking of death from a Spiritual point of view doesn't lesson the pains of losing a loved one for the pains of that loss and separation are real and ever present for those who endure it.