Grief

The topic of grief after the death of a loved one was one of the topics brought up in our monthly men’s meeting tonight, a subject which has changed a lot for me over time.  I have been near death three times and had a “near death experience” one of those times.  I have also been part of the death of numerous people.  Thanks, in part, to the near death experience, I know that physical death is nothing to be feared.  I know death as a spiritual transition.  I thought, wrongly, that my knowledge and experience would free me from the very human grief process.  I now realize that grieving is part of continuing with life while others pass on.