I wanted to center around the five stages of death and dying, but did not want to just stay there. To better explain, I feel these stages as they have been presented really only touch on the emotional aspects of these stages. I believe you not only have the emotional, but physical and also spiritual. We have all these interacting with each other whether you are dying in the physical, experience dying of a characteristic or even experience death as you deal with the pending loss and loss of a loved one. God can surely fill the loss, heal the hurts, or give a life replacement to those things that have died. I have experienced a loss of parents, relatives, friends, and a brother. It has been several years since my brother has died. There is healing there and acceptance, but still a grief and sadness still. God could assuredly heal the pain I am going through and has for the most part. I asked God to even remove some more of the grief too, but his response was that if he did that he would have to remove the memories. Memories bring back the grief, but also reinforce the joy of the life I had lived with. So, In that instance or example, I would not want this to be removed.
