Ways of Dealing with Death

Dealing with death is something we all have to face at some point in our lives. Certainly we are confronted with our own mortality throughout our lives. Maybe we have a serious car accident, an illness, or someone close to us dies. Each event challenges us to delve deeply into what we believe and how we are going to respond when it’s our turn.

Our responses to dealing with death are all unique depending on who we are, our relationship with the people around us, our relationship with a person who has just died…. How we are dealing with death depends on our level of fear and the unfinished business we have in our lives.

In many ways the unfinished business is easier to deal with than the fear, and cleaning up the unfinished business can serve to alleviate much of the fear.

So what do I mean by unfinished business?  Unfinished business can be lots of things…never telling someone how you really feel about them, holding on to anger or resentment or jealousy, people you want to forgive but you haven’t quite done it, holding love close without sharing it, not paying off debts, not writing a will, not talking about your living will, etc.  All these and many more are examples of unfinished businesss.

And all that’s unfinished, makes dealing with death that much more difficult. How can any of us move on if we’re carrying around that kind of load?

So my question to you is…What business do you need to clean up? What are you waiting for?