{Insane Souls}[21st June 1990]

[Redbook7:154][19900621:1242]{Insane Souls}[21st June 1990]

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‘His physical deterioration accelerated, and in October 1986 he died. Although he had not known who I was for more than a year, during his dying I know that he knew who I was, and could understand something that I wanted to say to him before we parted. His dying brought us back together again after many years of difficulty and much distress.’

– Elizabeth Forsythe, ‘The Longest Goodbye’/My Husband the Stranger’,

on her husband’s slow death from Alzheimer’s disease.*

This extremely subjective observation offers the faint possibility of evidence to overcome one of the greatest objections to life after death – what happens to the Soul/Psychic Records/Personalities of those who lose their ‘presence of mind’ in insanity or other mental disability some time before death? There are, of course, other possibilities: such as the non-existence of Time ‘after’ Death (so that the record can be gathered from the whole of an Individual’s life ‘simultaneously’, not just at Death); or the unpalatable answer, Nothing.**

*[The] Ind[ependent] Sunday Review, 19900617, p3,5.

**ref [] earlier Vol[ume]s [of this Journal].

[Or, of course, that those whose minds have gone do not pass over – which seems impossibly random, and indeed wasteful]

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