If I could speak to my mother, I’d ask if the next life is what she’d expected. She’s told me about her past, and I was with her up to the end. If she’s been watching over me she knows what else happened to me.

Id ask my parents about the afterlife, if they are happy if they know what Ive been doing, are they around other deceased relatives, etc.
Id want to say how much I love and miss them and ask more about our ancestors, etc. Get the name of my paternal great great grandmother and before her to add to my ancestral tree. Stuff like that.

My mother died young. Always visiting people with homemade fruit cakes, having a chat with the lonely. Two weeks before she was taken into hospital she was cleaning for her sister, ten years older than her. She was the school cook at a Primary school, loved children. When my cousin came out of prison, for the crime of having a seventeen year old gay lover, she took him under her wing, though he was ignored by most the family. Too busy to tell stories of the past.

Since I am the family historian, I would love to ask my ancestors a lot of questions about their lives. Fortunately, I got my parents' life stories in print before they died.

Such a vast loss of wisdom when we let our elders pass without learning their stories. Heartbreaking really. 💔

I haven't seen this trend, but that's pretty self centered. Is this how far society has come?