If they're going to heaven, aren't you suppose to be happy?
2007-09-26 04:46:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We mourn the fact that they are no longer with us and that they will be greatly missed. But, yes, we rejoice in their passing and their going to their heavenly home. In our family funerals are an odd combination of joy and sorrow.... our visitations (wakes) usually involve a lot of remembering the person, telling great stories about them, talking about what we will miss the most, etc. The funeral and interring is a time of sorrow, and then we gather at someones home for more remembering and rejoicing.
2007-09-26 04:53:00 · answer #1 · answered by usafbrat64 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No absolutely not! this is a little complicated but I'll try, I had this same question when my only sister died. 1st everybody doesn't go to heaven!!
But let's say for example they did! People cry because they will miss the actual physical being, their presence of their family/friends. You won't see them like have before. There flesh, skin, heart beat and so on is gone for good....but there soul, their spirit, shall live forever. If they give their heart to the Lord.
2007-09-26 12:03:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. you'd be sad because you miss them, regardless of where they're going (aren't parents sad when they're children go to college, even though they are going to a "better place". the sadness just comes from you missing them)
2. who's to say they're going to heaven?? no human can tell you thats for sure
2007-09-26 11:50:16 · answer #3 · answered by Katrina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You aren't sad because of where they are or aren't going, you are sad because you will no longer be able to see this person or spend time with them.
2007-09-26 11:50:11 · answer #4 · answered by Go Bears! 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes happy for them but also sad because they are not here with us. Tomb stones are for the living - they are no use to the dead.
2007-09-26 11:52:10 · answer #5 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think their departure for the promised land would be uplifting, but I can understand the sadness of that person being gone.
2007-09-26 11:51:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever lost anyone? If you experienced a death in your life, you wouldn't have asked this question.
Losing someone is VERY painful. God hates death, too. Even sinners' deaths don't please him.
Luckily, the last enemy to be destroyed is death!
There is no heaven. When you're dead, you're dead, until Jesus comes back.
2007-09-26 11:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by Body&Soul 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are sad because you miss that person's presence in your day-to-day life.
In the case of my mother, yes, I was glad she'd moved on to a better place. But I cry because I miss her, and at the time, I cried because of her suffering (she had cancer).
2007-09-26 11:50:57 · answer #8 · answered by milomax 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is the flesh that is sad,we cry for our self not the one that died,we know if they know God they are home.
2007-09-26 11:53:11 · answer #9 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Grief is selfish feeling. You are sad for yourself and the fact that they will not be in your life. You are happy for them. They won the lottery!
2007-09-26 11:49:33 · answer #10 · answered by PJ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋