Posted by used2b on April 3, 2005, at 12:40:54
In reply to Re: Can't afford the maintenance, posted by Susan47 on April 2, 2005, at 9:52:46
> You're complaining about society's outlook on death and dying. Wyy? I mean, if you truly want to die, as it sounds like you do, why come here? Why not just die?
Two reasons. Whether I want to live or die, Western society is primarily interested in entertaining only my thoughts of living. So I walk alone into that dark night.
Second, whether I'm visiting overnight or forever committing to the darkness, it seems I need not walk alone until I step across that irreversible threshold of death. I don't want to hear anyone saying "you can't go there -- if you even think of going there, you are sick and we will take over your body because your mind is no longer in charge." I would rather converse with someone who will say "you say you want to go because XXX, and you say you don't want to go because XXX."
That way, regardless the outcome, I potentially benefit from knowing I've coherently related who I really am and that I'm not speaking some kind of incoherent pidgin babble.
And a third reason, related to the first, is that if I am only welcome in this world insofar as I testify to an incessant desire for life, I'm probably not welcome because some of the time I have neither such desire nor much reason to represent that I yearn to live. I would rather live honestly with unhappy people, if only briefly, than in the midst of joyous souls whose members-only party seems eternal but whose facade is often false.
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