root-1151254_640Natural childbirth … you know the term.  Birth is perfectly natural, is it not?  In fact, many spurn hospitals, or at the very least, spurn the medications that dull the very natural experience of birth for mother and child.  Pain is a part of birth.  You know this and accept this.  No one wants pain, and few would say they like it, but they accept it as part of this natural process.

So now we ask you, what about death?  You fight it, especially when it happens before a pre-determined age that you call “a full life.”  But if life goes on after this physical incarnation, then death is but a passage.  You call it “dying of natural causes” when the body ceases functioning not as the result of an accident or deliberate effort, but that is merely referring to what came before a very natural ceasing of bodily functions.

Of course you mourn the loss of those you hold dear.  Of course you grieve the lack of physical presence, but they are not gone, my friend.  They are still very much alive as a soul, even more so than when in a dense body, we assure you, and they are surrounded by love … even more so than when surrounded by dense human beings.

And so, we leave you with these words to ponder:  Grief is natural, but so is death.  May you find comfort and solace in knowing that life goes on, albeit in a different form.

Talk to them.  They hear you.