Dear Karen,

It hurts me to think of sentimental things, like my mother's clothes, etc. going to strangers. What if I burn them?

Karen's reply:

After a matter of weeks or months at the most, physical objects have no significance to a person after they have left their physical body. But if it will make you feel better, why not dispose of them in whatever way you feel your mother would have liked?

To gain deeper insights into what happens when someone dies, I can highly recommend Death: The Great Journey, available by mail order from www.clairvision.org. This is the best writing I have ever found on the topic of death and dying, and will help you decide what it is best to do.

It's also in the Top Ten of my 'Must Read While On Planet Earth' booklist. It's as much about how to live as how to die, so you'll find it very useful for your own spiritual journey too.