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  • Living Life After a Spouse’s Death

    Living Life After a Spouse’s Death

    Losing a life partner takes one of the heaviest physical, emotional, and mental tolls you’ll experience in your life. It’s like having your heart torn in the middle. After all, your spouse is the one you chose to celebrate life’s highs and lows for the rest of your life. What’s more, it is an undeniable fact that you have built a life with your spouse and it would mean a big gap not only in your heart but in your manner of living.

    If your spouse has recently passed and you’re trying so hard to navigate life without your partner, here are our tips to at least get you back on track.

    Be Gentle with Yourself

    Depending on the responsibilities you and your spouse share, you may feel hopeless, helpless and dependent on their abilities and presence. There are instances when you’ll look back and remember how you have contributed on house chores while the other provided financial resources (or vice versa).

    In these trying times, you need to be gentle with yourself and take one step at a time. You may feel overwhelmed (especially since you’re still feeling lonely and is still grieving). It’s okay to be slow and ask for help from family and friends in getting stuff done.

    Consider Having a Companion in Your House

    Having a friend, a child, a sibling or even a pet move in with you can be a great help to your life. However, if you like solitude and would like to have some time off for yourself, opting for a pet may be a preferred idea. A pet may even encourage you to take walks, to get out of the house, and to even get out of the bed.

    Take Time to Accomplish House Chores

    Decluttering your home and taking on a cleaning project is a good way to divert your attention and be productive. You can even ask help from loved ones to aid you in giving your house a fresh look.

    You can also rearrange furniture, move items and hold a garage sale for things that you won’t use anymore. If you’re into arts, craft, and DIY projects, you can shop for items and create them into a masterpiece.

    Assess How You Plan to Move Forward

    Starting over doesn’t have a deadline. You can look back and ask yourself what’s the thing that you’d like to try, continue on pursuing (as some hobbies are halted because of priorities) and would like to abandon.

    In these times of solitude, having an introspective approach to life can help you move forward. It’s the best way of honoring your spouse’s life and respect to your life as well.

  • What Happens to the Body When You Die? Fascinating Facts You Need to Know About  

    What Happens to the Body When You Die? Fascinating Facts You Need to Know About  

    As we always mentioned, death is an inevitable part of our human lives. Some people would agree to the fact that our human bodies are like shells that degrade from usage and time. Although we have every possibility to create, do and discover the world, when our bodies degrade, it’s impossible to keep up with a fighting spirit.

    In this article, we steer away from coping-ups, emotional shutdowns and crying as we all discover what really happens to the body after its death.

    The integration of preservation techniques we all know today as mummification and embalming made it possible for dear ones to view the bodies of their departed before sending them off to an eternal goodbye.

    As interesting and tragic as it may sound, a dead body decays once its heart stops beating. After the heart stops working, there are a lot of processes that happen as the dead body ultimately reaches decomposition. Here’s a quick, complete and awful rundown of what happens to the body when it dies.

    Seconds after death

    The first thing that science discovers is that when a deceased body’s stopped working, the brain activity ramps up into a surge then it stops. After a few moments, the body’s temperature drops.

    Minutes after death

    One by one, your cells die because of a lack of oxygen. Next, every single cell breaks down and its contents are leaked as the process of putrefaction begins.

    What happens to the body when you die

     

    Hours after death

    Then the “rigor mortis” happens. This happens when the calcium content inside the deceased body’s build-up, causing the muscles to tense. The “rigor mortis” lasts for an average of 36 hours. This is the phase where most people would agree as creepy and fascinating at the same time.

    Once the phase of “rigor mortis” ends, the muscles relax, causing the deceased body to release the remaining urine and feces. As an effect of gravity pulling down the deceased body’s blood downwards, the upper extremities are eventually riddled with reddish and light spots.

    After the appearance of spots, the dead body’s skin starts to shrink. In effect, the nails and the hair look like it is growing at a rapid rate.

    Days after death

    The terrible smell you emit is caused by the decaying body’s release of bodily chemicals known as cadaverine/putrescine. Furthermore, green spots appear in a deceased body as the enzymes that help in digesting food items devour the organ as bacteria helps it.

    Weeks after death

    Maggots eat the deceased the body’s remains and you’ll be surprised that for a week’s time, 60% of the body has been eaten. More so, the cadaver’s hair falls out. Aside from going green from enzymes that digest the deceased body’s organs, it will appear as purple and ultimately black as the bacteria continuously consumes the dead body.

    As science would explain it, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to know or wanting to discover what really happens to the body when it dies. In fact, this is a great place to be informed of the bodily processes that most people would consider as taboo.

     

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  • Tales of Reincarnation – Life After Death

    Tales of Reincarnation – Life After Death

    As cliche as it may sound, death is an inevitable chapter of our lives. Whether you lived this life with nothing but goodness and compassion, you’re still bound to the chains of oblivion. Since death holds many wonders and questions, people all over the world ponder on what it’s like when a loved one has departed. Thus, the talks of reincarnation are brought to life.

    Reincarnation: A Walkthrough

    Reincarnation happens when a departed soul takes up or is reborn into another life form. For example, some religious cultures believe that a person will be reincarnated in accordance with their life deeds. 

    A righteous person can be brought to life in the form of mighty animals like a lion, eagle and other species. Being corrupt, greedy and rude will turn you into a despicable being such as pests, rodents or a cockroach. 

    These beliefs have paved the way for various cultures and traditions to practice morally sound decisions. Although science has yet to prove whether its real, here are stories from anonymous internet users that share their astonishing tales of reincarnation. 

    Tales of Reincarnation

    Murdered Child

    One avid reader of the Epoch Times told the media outlet one story of a chilling encounter. In a child-like innocence, her son told her he liked his new “daddy.” This confused the mother as the “daddy” the son was referring to is their biological son. Confused, the mother asked his son, “why.” The child replied, “my old father was mean to me. I died because he stabbed me in the back.” 

    Memories of the Killer

    One boy caused a commotion in an otherwise peaceful town of Golan Heights. When the child could talk, he told people about his death and about his killer. As the people of the town were quite fascinated and anxious about the thought, they led the boy to several villages to see if one was familiar to him. Oddly enough, one lingered in his memory and the child talked to the owner of one home in that area. 

    It was found out that the owner got into a fight with his neighbor (the reincarnated child). The man murdered his neighbor with one huge blow to the head with an axe to which the child remembered where the weapon was hidden. The child also led the villagers to where the man buried his body, leading to a confession of a crime.

    James McCready Houston 

    James Leininger of Louisiana was already an expert in aviation in just a young age of two years old. His parents initially thought this is because of a child’s natural inclination to curiosity. After a few years, this fondness grew into terror when James experienced nightmares and flashes as a fighter pilot, James McCready Houston. 

    The child told his parents he experienced flying a plane identified as Corsair from a boat referred to as the Natoma. Little James’ father did some research and discovered that a Battle of Iwo Jima happened, there was a Natoma Bay, and a pilot called James Houston, just what James Leininger narrates.

    These stories are contributed by various internet users and there is no scientific claim that these tales are real. It is up to you to decide whether it’s real. However, there is an underlying mystery behind death that is mystical, enchanting and horrifying at the same time. 

     

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