When I think about death, I hate how life goes on and sometimes the lost one can become a fleeting thought or a lost memory. It seems so strange how when the person who dies fights at the end (or whatever happens), and the support group around feels for the dying person and then starts to transition to the people who will be left behind. Then once the person has died (and I apoligize if I sound insensitive, because that's not my intention) the focus of course goes to the one alive because you can't dwell forever on death, what's done is done. With all due respect for the ones still alive, it's seems so sad to me at times to think of how the people who have passed away become a memory. They don't have the ability to partake in life anymore and all of their loved ones move on. You have to move on, but how sad to think, when that time comes for me, my husband will have to move on, everyone I love will have to get a grip and move on from thinking about me being gone. They will need to put *me* behind them as much as possible in order to still live life. That concept gets me. There's just nothing nice about dying. I don't think our society does a lot for the dead. Seems the focus is for the living to forget and move on, rather than to keep the spirit of the dead alive and continue to cherish them. Maybe that's too much and invasive for our minds in order to keep living. I just don't want to be forgotten or replaced! That was a lot of a rambling....