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Contemplations on the Hereafter

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During our last conversations, Aunt Elizabeth recalled stories of old Uncle Coot, whom she could barely remember. Coot was some kind of blockade runner or spy during the Civil War. Exactly which side he was spying for remains a bit cloudy. But he was, after all, a true, southern gentleman. (Until I came along, all the Chicowitz' had been born in the south. I had the gall to be born in Cleveland, Ohio. But is was south Cleveland, I am quick to add.)


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My aunt died last week. She was an aged and frail lady, and it was her time to go; so it was not a sad event.Nonetheless, it got me to thinking.Aunt Elizabeth was a charming and fascinating lady, and one of these days when I feel unusually eloquent, I'll write something that does justice to her.But that's just not in me today. Today my thoughts are a bit more abstract.

Elizabeth and her brother Elizabeth and her brother But before I begin, I feel I should warn you. I do not mean to make light of anyone's belief or religion; quite the contrary. But there are some things about death and the afterlife that I just can't figure out, and I intend to ponder them for a while. If you are especially sensitive to these kind of discussions, you may not find my musings entertaining, and perhaps you should not read any further. But I assure you that I do not mean to offend anybody.

For the sake of this discussion, let's assume that there is a God, and that you do have an eternal spirit, and that after you die, your spirit does go to Heaven, or possibly to, what we called in the fifties, "the other place." OK, now for starters, all my relatives went to Heaven - that is just an absolute. The mean, grumpy, old neighbors that lived next door to me when I was growing up, the Stumms... they have a permanent residence in "the other place." But all my relatives... they are surely "up there."

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