Originally Posted by Mord

I believe there is life and that the "afterlife", as it's mistakenly called, is a continuation of this one. If anything, this should be called the "forelife". I don't really think it will much matter about loved ones. It depends on the relationship. Like, I have no doubt Kedvesem and I will be playing in Our Lady's garden together, but my children--whom I dearly love--will be merely bowing acquaintances.

Death both scares me and doesn't scare me. It scares me insofar as it's a mystery and I don't want to be presumptuous, but it also doesn't scare me insofar as I know death has lost its sting. It doesn't have to be the end. It can be a transition to something glorious so that, when we are there at last gazing upon and being swept up in the Beatific Vision, we can look at one another and say, "We have always been in Heaven".