Posted by Sigismund on July 16, 2009, at 14:41:16
In reply to Seriously Does Anyone Think Of Their Own Death?, posted by Phillipa on July 16, 2009, at 13:15:15
Every day, of course.
But don't you find the world becomes more beautiful as you get older?
Think of young people. When I was young I naturally thought old people were pretty gross, but I never realised young people were beautiful.
I can stare at the sky and the clouds (Australia has good clouds. I don't know about the USA, but the European sky has seemed like a sheet of lead when I've been there. Australia has this huge sky and (most of the time) way too much light.)
What I am trying to say is that the closer I get to death the more I realise how beautiful and magical it all is. Mankind and his products are a special case and are generally vile, certainly (for example) the built environment here, which is why I live in the country.Isn't it odd? All these creatures, all these people are born and then they die. I figure if they can do it I can do it too.
And at least I've escaped the worst that humans do to each other.So what are you terrified of? Being snuffed out? Like your consciousness being suffocated?
But it's hard, isn't it, when someone who is dying gives you that look and asks to be made better or, if that is impossible, asks to be remembered.
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