We've lost many wonderful people, and these are some well known stars who's life and passing have effected me:
Phil Hartman~*~The funniest, most sincere, caring man I think I've ever known of. I can't imagine anyone not having loved him. He never let fame effect him. We'll miss his jokes, his characters, his charm, his bright smile and eyes, and his kindness to all and everything.
Frank Sinatra~*~A voice like no other. Beautiful blue eyes. A man who could act and sing with such power, he could've ran the world.
John Denver~*~Beautiful singer, supporter of wildlife conservation, fine actor. Found love in his music and human/animal rights, as well as a passion for flying. Wrote the best ballads I've ever heard.
John Lennon~*~Thinker, writer, singer, true artist. A real genius. Fighter for peace. He just wanted to take a break from his fame and live life like everyone else.
Linda McCartney~*~True spirit. Stood up for the animals and gave them a voice to be heard. Loved wildlife and wasn't afraid to stand up for them.
Sonny Bono~*~Funny little guy. Made a lot of laughs in his life. Went on to be important in the world of politics and still remained the same person we used to see on TV creating some of the silliest scenes around.
DeForest Kelley~*~An all around gentleman. His charming southern kindness gave off an aura of comfort. Someone you'd love to call a close friend.
~*~My deepest sympathies to the family of John F. Kennedy Jr. who was placed in the shadow of his father, and who is not his father, but his own self.~*~
This site is composed of my own opinions. I know they differ from other people's, so don't take offense if you don't agree. Thanks!
Everyone sees death differently. I've been told that I have a closed mind on the views I have, but I resent that completely. I know I have a very open mind on the matter. The way I see it is, we were all created by God. I can't say I believe that He knows the whole plan or if He's doing it all as He goes along. But I have my own ideas. I choose to believe that people will keep having children on this earth for as long as they can. In that case, the world will never be unpopulated. When we die we go to Heaven or Hell, and I think that this whole life/death process will end when there are no more living life-forms left in the universe. Then there will only be after-life. No more birth and no more death. Now the only way that there will be no more life in the universe is if people stop having children and the last person dies. But I don't imagine that that will happen anytime soon. So other ways would be for the universe to be destroyed to the point where nothing can survive and everything dies off in time. Or, judgement day and we are all removed from here and taken to the next place. I assume that there may be several levels of after-life. But no one can say exactly what will happen once we move on. I don't believe in reincarnation like some people. I also don't believe in other Gods. I am open-minded about my future. I think that anything can happen, and I don't rule out the impossible. God is well capable of doing anything He pleases. I mean, He created the universe, and everything on it. Imagine what we haven't even witnessed yet. With that in mind, I try not to worry about many things that I have no control over. Things scare me, but most of those things I can't do anything about, and I'm sure that whatever those things can do to me, God can do many times worse if He chose to. Fear in God is the only real fear. Everything else is minor in comparison to Him. So, my point to all of this is that the way I see death is something like this. We were created by God, and when our lives are through here, we go to Heaven or Hell and we remain there for eternity. So this "life" now is just a phase of the big picture. Just a fraction of it all. I think of Heaven as "home." Literally. I think of earth as a vacation of sorts. We spend an amount of time on our vacation, and then we go home to where we really belong. It's like when you leave all the great things you own at home and you go on your vacation and buy new things while you're there, as souveniers (which stand for emotions and knowledge that you have gained in life). You didn't bring all your stuff from home with you, but it's there, and you know it's there waiting for you when you get home. So to me, each time someone dies, they go home. It's sad when they leave you behind, but you know they will be OK, because they went to where all their great things are waiting for them, and they're happy to be home when they get there. Sometimes on a vacation, you enjoy it so much that you don't want to go home. And you think that things at home will be different, so it makes it hard to leave. Perhaps we have to live to gain the knowledge and the entality of things in order to get the fullness of the after-life situations. Some people can't wait to go back home. Some are afraid of the change. Some don't care. It's nice to be around the people you love and who care about you, and all the stuff you've aquired throughout your vacation, but it's also nice to rejoin those people that have since gone home. But you always know that they're going to be there waiting for you, and it makes it a bit hard when you have to leave people behind. But eventually, those people you left behind will join you. It just takes time. A lot of time. Afterall, there are so many people and so many being created each second, so it will surely take an incredible amount of time for them all to make it to one place. In conclusion, we never really lose people, and they never actually die. They just go home.