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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (55267)	8/27/2000 2:51:57 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Yah. No burning LIVE stuff, for Pete's sake. Just maybe Your stuff. If we put all, or very much at all, of my stuff on a Viking boat, it would have to be a Viking Barge. Viking container ship. Straight to the bottom. In three feet of water, before it even catches fire. ~ Eg, Norton brought me a rusty gear we are estimating at 230 lbs. It's Primo Stuff. What ya gonna do?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (55267)	8/27/2000 2:56:23 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Do you think now that we are less able, or willing, to deal with the passage of loved ones? Yes, I do believe that is true.... I think that many people are uncomfortable...even to "be" with someone when they cross over... I was just thinking about this last night for some reason... I think of it occasionally these days because I was with my Dad when he crossed over last year... I won't get into this here, but I had a discussion with a friend who is a nurse... She was telling me about how "rare" it is getting to be...for people to be with family or friends when they cross over.... She works in a place where they regularly have to call family to ask them if they can come down to be with their loved ones when it looks like their time here is growing short. She says that many of them react in anger... say they are busy and they will come when they can....some similar excuse. She doesn't believe that the "busy" thing is the real reason that they don't come... more like they are uncomfortable with death and don't want to "be there". Having been with my Dad and others and many of my animals here at the farm over the years, I can't think of NOT being there... Seems weird.... selfish.... but then that's JMHO....

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (55267)	8/27/2000 3:06:03 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

>>>....there is something importment, to me, about seeing these things through, watching the full walk to the other side that someone takes. It's sacred.<<< Yah. I think so too. Don't know why, exactly. You know, at the Battle of the Bulge in WW II, the Allies, particularly, lost a lot of people to heavy artillery barrages. These are generally the people they list as MIA's. They disappear. Poof. I always think that's kind of strange. Corporeal quick change. And then I start thinking about stupid things, like people who were actually HIT by artillery shells, or bombs. You know, not blown up when they landed near them; but hit on the head. On the kneecap. In the crotch. In the butt. There's something even weirder about THAT. It happened quite a bit. I dunno what it is, but it's weird. I knew a guy who was there? Al? And he said it was just like that there. The death things. Doorways. Here one minute; gone the next. Poof. I guess we could wait til the birds are done cleaning the trees.