What is there other than this ultimate reunion of souls?
My dad, who was a seminary-trained minister and a walking model of Christian behavior in most everything he did, told me once that there's no Biblical basis whatever for thinking we'll "be reunited with our loved ones" in the sweet by-and-by. United with the deity up there, yes, but not other people. If one of you Christians can show me otherwise, go ahead: I might have misunderstood him.
When I was younger I used to really fear my own death. Now that I'm old enough to sort of anticipate it, I don't so much. I fear the livin' crap out of the deaths of people close to me - hell, of my pets that I'm fond of. I don't want to be left alone. And, conversely, I'll quote an old Bob Dylan line:
"I don't mind dyin'
But I hate to leave my baby cryin'"
But as for myself, once I'm dead, I won't know it. I'll be gone.
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