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What Will I "Miss"

We all have our “thinking spaces”.   For some it is in nature.   For my sweetheart it is in the shower.   For me, it’s taking walks.   And I just got back from a long one, which means I have had some thinking time. Today I thought about death.   It’s not a new topic to me, in fact my brain sometimes jumps to it even when I wish it wouldn’t, and I have to squeeze my eyes shut and wish the thoughts away.   But today I allowed them to stay, tried to “welcome” them, as much as one can welcome thoughts of death. And I began thinking about things I might MISS after I die.   My rational brain quickly jumped in to correct my day dreaming – “You can’t MISS anything after you are dead,” it correctly asserted.   Alright then, if I won’t actually MISS them in the sense that I currently understand missing , what things might I be sad or disappointed I could no longer experience (yes, I know that sadness and disappointment won’t be emotions avail...