• Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    She slept better last night. The sores in her mouth didn’t hurt as much, but her nail beds felt worse.

    Three weeks between infusions let’s her hair grow back just a little between each. She looks cute with a little fuzz on top.

    She still smiles. It fills me with joy every time. Laughing hurts but those smiles…

    I watch her through the night. I don’t recognize her anymore. Her breaths come differently, but the sound still helps me fall asleep.

      • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        3 hours ago

        If there is no proof then it’s no different than a fantasy. The entire concept of a soul is a desire for personhood to be immortal.

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        7 hours ago

        In my case both, but I am an atheist who believes that this world and this life is all that we have and can prove exists.

        I am agnostic enough to admit that could be wrong, and underlying this is that existing forever, even in paradise, sounds terrifying to me.

        • potter297@lemmy.zip
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          7 hours ago

          I’m definitely getting nit-picky, but I’m seeing a lot of definitions for what a soul is (from an Ecosia search), and one definition I like is “an individual person.” I generally think of a soul as someone’s consciousness, which to me means that all life has souls. But I have been called a hippie before 😅