death sucks

Tough year SS... close relatives?

Some closer than others.

Some closer than others.I'm sorry to hear about your year. I'm sure they're all at peace and in a much better place. My prayers are with you and your family, God Bless.

I hate when I see this thread pop up, sorry for a tough year SS.

at 5 now for the year. And it's not even June. Sigh...

My gosh man. I am so sorry. I can't even imagine. My heart goes out to you and yours.

Death sucks!

Ego comes about through a split in the human psyche in which identity separates into two parts that we could call "I" and "me" or "me" and "myself." Every ego is therefore schizophrenic, to use the word in its popular meaning of split personality. You live with a mental image of yourself, a conceptual self that you have a relationship with. Life itself becomes conceptualized and separated from who you are when you speak of "my life." The moment you say or think "my life" and believe in what you are saying (rather than it just being a linguistic convention), you have entered the realm of delusion. If there is such a thing as "my life," it follows that I and life are two separate things, and so I can also lose my life, my imaginary treasured possession. Death becomes a seeming reality and a threat. Words and concepts split life into separate segments that have no reality in themselves. We could even say that the notion "my life" is the original delusion of separateness, the source of ego. If I and life are two, if I am separate from life, then I am separate from all things, all beings, all people. But how could I be separate from life? What "I" could there be apart from life, apart from Being? It is utterly impossible. So there is no such things as "my life," and I don't have a life. I am life. I and life are one. It cannot be otherwise. So how could I lose my life? How can I lose something that I don't have in the first place? How can I lose something that I Am? It is impossible.

-- Eckhart Tolle

puff puff...

pass

Lost my dog yesterday. I realize it pales in comparison to losing friends or family. But still. Definitely feeling it, death does indeed suck.

A long time ago now, I was 18, I went away for a weekend, my dog was pregnant, and due any time. I got home, and she had died giving birth. I have never forgotten how I felt when I got back and found out.
I am sorry for your loss - dogs are so close to family.

Lost my dog yesterday. I realize it pales in comparison to losing friends or family. But still. Definitely feeling it, death does indeed suck.


dude sorry for your loss, always hurts to loss a dog.