Death of a Loved One and "The Great Forgetting"

In answering a question about one's reaction to facing the death of a relative, Francis discusses grief, our eternity, and living without regrets.

0:00 Is the sense of emptiness amidst the experience of pain or terror, the peace or happiness you speak of?
3:02 Grief
4:40 It's not indifference; it's having found this place of eternity
5:40 Dying
6:50 Jean Klein called death "The Great Forgetting"

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Partial transcript:

"Often when people are dying they know they are dying. The most stupid thing to do is to come to this person and say "oh no you're going to be better." And they know you are giving them this BS, and so that prevents any real communication in these last moments or last days or last weeks.

You see? Whereas to acknowledge the death of the body, and you can tell them "Yes, we are all dying. The moment the body was born, it started dying."

It's a question of living without regrets...living it in a perfect manner.

And it's never too late. It's never too late to do what one has to do. Ideally we should live our life leaving no unfinished job, so that we could die like that, without any regrets."


(From Temecula Thanksgiving Retreat with Francis Lucille 2021 11 24)

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