Saturday, October 02, 2004

After Life Threesome?

I know everyone has his or her different views on religion and the afterlife. But, I do know that many people believe that they will be re-united with their loved ones when they die. The whole tunnel of light and "oh there's Uncle Sam, there's cousin Becky". I also know that in general most people consider marriage "till death do us apart". However, I've been to my fair share of religious weddings where that phrase is never uttered. Instead, there is a lot of talk on being brought together by the lord, and being together forever and ever. This particular blog is not to comment on the validity of any of the above beliefs. However, a certain conflict does come into play when you both believe in marriage for eternity and being re-united with your loved ones after death. What if your spouse dies when you are young? For instance you get married at 21 and your spouse dies when you are 25. Do you ever remarry? Obviously this is a delicate and important question in itself, but it's not what I'm concerned with here. I think that most people do end up getting re-married. After a period of grieving most people eventually find someone else and re marry. My question is when you die, and your new spouse dies, who spends eternity together? It would seem natural that the person you married second would be the person you stayed with. You've been with them longer and more recently. You are a completely different person than you were when your first spouse died. It wouldn't seem fair to say to the person you got remarried to "hey thanks for the last 50 years of marriage but there's this person I knew in my 20's and I'm going to spend the next eon with them". On the other side it wouldn't seem right to just forgot your first spouse. "Hey nice to see you again. Thanks for waiting for me the past 50 years and saving this place in heaven. But I kind of met someone else; I mean it's not my fault you got in that wreck. Oh and those vows I made, uh can we pretend that didn't happen?" Maybe it just depends who dies first. If you die before your second spouse you go with the person waiting. But it could get complicated if your second spouse died first, since they would both be waiting for you. Do they have to fight over you? Maybe you just all get together for a little holy ménage-a-trois.

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