I was raised a ... and was taught we die and that's it until God comes
and raises those from the dead. The "chosen" go to heaven, the "bad" are
destroyed, and the "good" stay on the earth to make it fruitful and
beautiful again and clean it up to make the world better for those
coming back. Ok, well, my mother just passed and what I was taught
doesn't really comfort me, since according to that belief she wasn't
necessarily the "good" one. Who the hell knows who's good? I'm glad
she's not suffering anymore, but it hurts I'll never see again-- EVER?!!
Please be nice...I'm just looking for comfort to rest my mind

If she accepted Christ as her savior she went to heaven. Pray for her

the only way to find out what happens when you die is to read about it
in the Bible. It'll have your answer.

What really happens to you when you die is this:

Immediately upon death, two angels are assigned to guard you as you get
used to the fact that you are dead. For about three days, you are
allowed to wander to places and people who are significant to you.

It is during this period that people have strange experiences where they
see or hear a recently deceased person. These experiences follow an
interesting pattern. In general, the person who has the experience is
not the person who loved the deceased the most, but the person whom the
deceased loved the most. These phenomena are extremely common, but we
don’t talk about them. If you have had an experience like this, rest
assured that you are completely normal.
After you have gotten your bearings, the two angels take you on a tour
of Paradise and Hades, and then assist you as you undergo what is called
a “particular judgment” (a provisional individual judgment) to determine
whether you wait for the Resurrection and the Last Judgment in Hades or
in Paradise. This process takes some time and generally ends on the
fortieth day after death.
I hope this helps.
P.Christopher

I don't know, but sounds like she was a Jehovah's Witness from what she
said.

Monique,
You are very young to lose your Mother, I recently lost a brother and
his children are around your age, it has been 6 months and they will not
ever be the same, I hope this story helps:
"In the bottom of an old pond lived some grubs who could not understand
why none of their group ever came back after crawling up the lily stems
to the top of the water.
They promised each other that the next one who was called to make the
upward climb would return and tell what had happened to him. Soon one
of them felt an urgent impulse to seek the surface; he rested himself on
the top of a lily pad and went through a glorious transformation which
made him a dragonfly with beautiful wings. In vain he tried to keep his
promise, flying back and forth over the pond, he peered at his friends
below, then he realized that even if they could see him they would not
recognize such a radiant creature as one of their number.
The fact that we cannot see our loved ones or communicate after the
transformation which we call death is no proof that they cease to
exist."
I will pray for peace in your heart,
Lisa

What happens is that when you die you pass onto another plane of
existence where you study everything you learned in the life you just
left. After that you are reincarnated into another life; whether it be
an animal, plant, insect, star, another person or other living organism
to learn more. This happens over and over again until you learn
everything you were supposed to learn when your essence was created.
After all this happens, which might be thousands of years, you pass on
to be with the Gods.

Just look at it like this. Each new life might be her essence.

Who knows? If you have a baby, it might be here essence in the new
child.

I hope that this helps you to realize that the ending of each new life
is not the end, it is just a beginning of a new one.

try thinking of the funeral as a celebration of her life i think we all
live on in the memories of our loved ones staying positive will help you
cope with the loss of your loved one.i work at three cemetaries here in
pa and thats what i see everyday is families greiving for their loved
ones so stay positive and think of all the good times i think itll help
you get through the loss
my sincerest condolances
paul