Tragic that she has been mislead into believing going to Heaven upon our bodies death means that she wanted to leave her daughter and go some place else.
It's perhaps tragic that this is how she thinks her daughter would perceive things, but how four year olds respond to reality is a difficult thing to predict. She wants her daughter to be as happy as possible, how can that be tragic?
Also sad that she wants them to pick any religion that they want but obviously not the Christian, Jewish, Muslim and others that teach a Heaven awaits.
That's not how I interpret what she wrote - she didn't advocate for or against any belief system (or absence of one), she just pointed out that she doesn't conform to any of them, and didn't want people confusing her bereaved daughter after her death.
Sad that she left letters instead of saying some of these things while she was able. She was able to write the letters, why not talk face to face.
Her daughter's four. She had things to tell the girl that she's not ready for, yet, that's why she left letters. I don't doubt for a minute that she's been talking to her daughter AS WELL - the letters are an addition, not a replacement.
What's tragic, here, is that you've seen this as a criticism of religion in general rather than as a request for consistency in a young girl's time of loss, and have responded by attacking a dead woman's motives rather than seeing someone trying to make the best of a bad situation.
O.
Most important things my mother said to me hours before she went to Heaven. And believe me she didn't opt to leave me, but she knew it was her time and she faced it with dignity and assurance of her salvation. Those final words from mom I cherish and I will never forget them.
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