My younger brother died almost 30 years ago. Everyone was saying how he's in a better place. Short answer to the question is... No

No

I girl I was seeing when my ex wife and I slit up she was a lot younger than me. She died in a car crash my feelings for her were stronger than I even thought. I couldn’t except that she was gone. I looked at every religion I could find trying to find one that I could believe in so that I believe she was totally gone and I would see her again. There are no religions that are compatible with reality and I came to except that she was gone and I would never see her again.

No.

Quite the opposite in my case. I lost someone I loved so much, and that god clearly didn't value, that it drove me OUT of religion. Well, that was a major proximate cause. It wouldn't, by itself, be enough to keep me from permanently regressing. But it popped me out of the religious "bubble" long enough to wake up to the utter bankruptcy of religious faith as a viable path to truth. It gave me time to understand better and more sustainable reasons for rejecting religious faith.

It should be noted that as bad as it was it didn't change my opinions on go or religion. I still don't believe in god or afterlife. Although the afterlife I'm giving maybe a 5% chance...

Not religion, but imagining some sort of afterlife presence. I know it's not true, but I have held on to certain feelings or events that seemed to have meanings. I let go later, but at the time I guess I needed to believe that person wasn't really gone.

Now that I'm getting a bit old, lol. I have lost several people I loved dearly. It does make one hope for something more beyond this world for the dearly departed. However science supports reincarnation, in that we are all made up of the same elements. These elements are returned to the Earth in death. In this way we are reincarnated into a multitude of new life, over and over.

Losing my papa made me realize why so many people turn to religion. I was desperate for anything to ease it.

I am deeply Saddened when someone dies far too young. Someone who has lived a long life, while I may miss them, I am at peace with their passing. The thing that puzzles me is why the devout are often more fearful of death and more overtly distraught at someone's passing than the non-religious.

Nope

After my son died, the world turned blacker than I ever saw it before. Still no religion. We didn’t live with it, we won’t die with it. My son is just gone.

I left religion a long time ago. I lost my mom at age 18. It made me move farther away from it.

No. If there was such a person it would be my mother.

I am so removed from religion that I will never go back. I loved her more than anything else in my life, but I will never cowtow to any crazy religion to get her back. I love you mom, but I will never buy into that sort of crazy ever again!

Not like that. And I'm sorry for your loss. I lost my dad a couple of years ago. He was in hospice for 17 days. Those were horrible days. He was a Christian. I bought a little prayer book that I read to him from. While it certainly did not, or could ever have brought me to religion, there was a certain comfort that i felt to offer something that might bring him comfort.

I haven't had a religious tug when I've lost anyone close to me, but I've known people who have. One of my in-laws became moderately religious after his brother died. He claims to have been an atheist before (when trying to tell me how I'll come around to a religious perspective eventually), but what he really means is that he never thought about religion at all before deciding "there must be something." I, on the other hand, was devoutly religious and gave it up after a great deal of contemplation and discernment. I can't imagine what would drive me to religion at this point, aside from mental illness or a brain injury (not being facetious, because those things can and do happen).