I strongly believe that love cannot die. We are seemingly born as the product of love between a man and a woman, but where has our spirit come from? Spirit is not the result of human union, for it is of Divine origin. So it came from somewhere outside of us - and surely returns there upon death. We come to earth to fulfill a purpose and once our work is done we 'die'. But it is our physical remains that go into our grave, not the spiritual essence that is immortal.

This arrives long after the act of love (or IVF or any of the other means by which people conceive these days) and leaves around the time our last breath is taken. So where does it go? I could theorize endlessly since there can be no definitive answer, but my personal belief is that it comes from and subsequently returns to Source. And of course we can define 'Source' however we choose, according to our religion - if we have one. If we have no religion, then 'dead' is 'dead' and nothing else makes any sense.

I can make no sense of death being an end or of love that we have given and received in our lifetime dying when our body dies. Love is far too precious to be finite. We speak of God being love and we only need to look at his work in our world and in the universe to understand that the whole act of creation was fueled by love. And we are a part of that, so we are also a part of Him.

If God is love and He is immortal, and we are part of Him then we are immortal too, as is the love we have exchanged with others during our earthly sojourn.

? P.G. Glynn