Re: Words for "Death"
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 7, 2003, 8:42 |
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Staving Athaey Angosii:
>The normal verb "to die" is |kriloriv| in Asha'ille. It is a simple
>negation of |loriv| "to live" and only applies to the body's death. The
>Cresaeans believe that so long as people remember the deceased, they aren't
>really dead in any meaningful way. It's only if they are "disremembered"
>-- the verb is |kishalníriv| -- that they are truly, tragically lost.
In Catholic belief, those who die without having either accepted God's love
sufficiently to be united with Him (Heaven), or rejected Him utterly
(Hell), enter a state of Purgatory to complete the atonement necessary for
their sins. They are released from this by the prayers of the living and
the saints. Obviously, while the living pray for the dead in general, most
people pray particularly for their own deceased loved ones. There is,
however, a traditional devotion for "the most forgotten soul in Purgatory",
to ensure that the unremembered are not denied Paradise. Of course, nobody
is forgotten by God and the saints anyway, but the living still have a duty
to remember those who have gone before them.
A little bit of irrelevant Catholic lore that I was just reminded of.
Pete