We humans have the ability to adapt to any situation.. Though we are scared of change, especially the change that comes with loosing a loved one, we eventually move on. 

Some times I have those thought too, will my mum miss me if I'm gone? How long will she cry? etc The truth is what our loved ones will miss is how we made them feel, what we did for them and they will move on once we are replaced because no one is indispensable..

So I think that we should spend everyday by making positive impacts and leaving our prints in the sands of time. the kind of prints that won't be erased by our absence..

Resteemed, I love this!!

Of course everything is hypothetical your approach.

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I recommend that you stay better, do not even think about it, just thinking is anguish for your loved ones. You will miss your wife and your daughter, I know what it is not to have a father by your side so I try my best to be a father 24 X 24 x 360 days and hours.

So by the way you see life I know you're an excellent father.

But I'm also honest, I literally think that many of us have these questions.

I think we all aspire to leave a mark in the world so that when we leave it behind we are remembered.  I admit to that but only to those who opinion really matter to me: is my mom proud of the man and father I have become, does my daughter look up to me as being a good person?  I think that is my focus which still could be selfish depending on the means done to get there.

the stages of life begin at necer and end at death or physically disappear, no one knows when it is their turn, to think of that is to be predisposed to it to happen, life must be lived, do good, think of loved ones, love them , leave teachings and when I play or mode, I play and there is no way to go back. Leaving a legacy of teachings and good deeds is the best gift to your loved ones and to society itself.

Lately I am tired and half dead anyway. Of course we have to be prepared for anything and the future for our families may be  a little uncertain if we had to disappear but life goes on.

> how many would notice if my blog suddenly ran dry?

Kidding, right? People start worrying if you didn't post in the past three hours.
As for the real question, sometimes we don't realize what a person meant in your life until they're gone... but life goes on.

There is a saying at our place : 

If you disappear for ever, then your well wishers will cry for a day, your immediate family members ( excluding wife) will cry for 7 days, and your wife will cry for 6 months. And then they will adjust and thing will move on. This is LIFE :) so enjoy every moment till we disappear.

We do not know the answer. God may use the disappearance in a beautiful way to glorify Him. Then again we have suffered great losses when one disappears. I think of my late girlfriend who died unexpected two years ago.   A very great loss as I miss her daily -  but it made me grow and changed me.  I suppose it boils down to where the heart is for both the disappeared and the one left behind. As I see much value in your writing and feel your heart...I would miss you and feel my life would not be as enriched.   Blessings. @tarazkp

This is an interesting topic one of many in my opinion.   It's been a long time since I thought of life the way you described it.   In my opinion when we pass on there will be a void left by our absence. It is how our loved ones, relatives, and friends react to it that really matters.  We can not know the unknown and the wonder about it is part of our existence at least mine anyway.  

As for life after death I believe the only thing terminating after death is this existence.  In my opinion every living thing in the universe has a paired existence between an eternal spirit that lives many lives before entering heaven and a soul which has only one life before entering heaven.

In my view the spirit is the primary guiding force to how the soul lives on this plane of existence.   I also believe the spirit ages with each new life.  

Each time the spirit enters the gates of heaven it is judged on how well it guided the soul in its' brief experience as a living being at least life the way we understand it.  The soul however will be judged on how well they treated their life, the lives of the living beings around them, and their understanding of their creator.

I don't believe in an eternal hell, nor do I believe this plane to be hell,  I do however believe that when the body of a living being seises to function sufficient enough to sustain life, as we know it to be, the body becomes an empty shell.  The soul and spirit that were the life force within the body move on to a higher plane, one for which the spirit will be familiar but may be completely foreign to the soul.  How long the soul exists in hell will be up to them.

The soul isn't judged on it's life on this plane until it meets its maker.  That said we have no idea what our lives will be like after death.  Our only hope of seeing heaven or at the very least our expectation of it is to  to treat ourselves and every living thing around us the way we would have them treat us to the best of our ability.