Longer than life itself

I'd like you to consider something.
Yes, I know that actual thinking is a stretch for a couple of you, but give it a try.

Our blogs have a life of their own. No, really.
The writer of this blog might live to be 100 if he is really lucky, probably a lot less. But me (the actual blog), I will live on forever, or as long as this site exists.

The CS site will probably live on past the lives of the current owners. The heirs will likely continue to make money off of the advertisements. So, in a sense there IS life after death. One's thoughts and deeds can live on. You can even respond to them and so can people (later), who aren't even born yet.

I'll give you a real life/death example. I'm on another social network site. No, it's not face... or friend... or even mysp...
It's a site that has a lot less kiddies. I have thousands of nature photos hosted there and people from all over the world buy them. Well, I've also communicated with many friends there.
Some I have met in person and some I haven't. One friend, Linda, I met last year while vacationing in Florida. We met online several years ago. But, the meeting in person was only as friends, because I wasn't attracted to her physically. But, we had a good rapport with each other. She used to call me a lot.

This time she was disappointed with a meeting she had with a date and needed a friend to console with. So, she called me up and since she was local (on the east coast), asked if she could stop by along with her little dog. I said "sure". So, we had dinner together and she asked if they (her dog & her) "could spend the night". Again, I said "sure" and put them up in the master bedroom, while I took a spare room.

Knowing that Linda enjoyed taking pictures of animals, after breakfast the next morning, I took her to where I expected wild alligators to be hanging out and indeed, we shot photos of a gator family; pop & mom & 13 little ones. We had a great time together and I got to know her even better. She and her dog left the following morning.

A few months later, I found out from a mutual contact, that Linda had a brain aneurysm and went into a coma. After a long time on life support, her family decided to 'pull the plug' and she died shortly thereafter.

Now, here's the reason I bring this up. Many of her friends & contacts visit her online site daily and leave (virtual) flowers and nice messages about memories including Linda. It's such a much nicer place to visit for everyone, than a graveyard. It lets you remember her as she really was. Linda's pictures are still there, as well as her blogs and sweet & funny comments. Indeed, many of her comments are on my blogs & pictures too. It's a great reminder of what a truly sweet person she was and in a real sense still is.

So, as I started, it's just something for you to consider.