I always find it odd when modern, super-religious people who actually believe in an afterlife and eternal life and heaven and all that jazz, are the exact same ones who lose their shit and refuse to accept it when someone actually dies.
It's almost like the belief system is a well-developed form of overcompensation for their fear of death that, when push comes to shove, doesn't even work. If you actually believed someone went to a 'better place' as a physical reality and not simply a comforting metaphor, you'd deal with death a whole lot better whether it was a baby or an old person. Social media is the worst for encouraging the worst instincts of these people, who can seemingly attract a mob of useless malcontents to scream outside a hospital in no time.
It really is a symptom of increasing pussification and total inability to deal with the facts of life though, which include death being something that comes to us all, with no way of telling when or where, the way people try to hang onto the dead these days. Literally hanging onto a braindead, rotting shell, insisting they be kept alive for years on end, with zero dignity to the dead or themselves or thought for the resources they are hogging, or even the endless pain they are putting themselves through by delaying the inevitable and putting life on hold often for years to engage in these histrionic legal pantomimes.
People as little as 100 years ago, lacking even life support machinary to keep a dead person 'breathing' , had many, many strict rituals regarding death to ease people socially, spiritually and emotionally through the inevitable, most of which have been lost and sometimes replaced with this kind of hysterical denial syndrome, pick and mix spirituality or simply a total inability to process death at all which leads to all kinds of bad shit. Death back then was way, way, more common when it came to children and you could reasonably expect to be bereaved of at least one child before age five if not ALL of them if you were unlucky. When people say it's not natural for a child to die before a parent they are ignoring teh fact it was the norm until very, very recently and in some benighted parts of the world, still is. I've seen grave sites from the early 20th century where people lost five or six children in a row, all before the age of two. Back in the day, religion was supposed to soothe the shock, make some kind of sense of your loss, give you rituals to move you along the grieving process and allow life to continue. Now it seems as if religion is too often used to deny the existence of death even on the physical plane.
