that’s the good news.
the bad news is we don’t want to die, not just yet and we need ways to live while not bogged down by the fear of our own mortality.
this paper on how not to fear death makes for good reading on a bright sunny day like today.
have a fearless day, won’t you.
happy week everyone
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I will read this over. Thanks.
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You should.
Its well written for one.
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Quite frankly, why would anyone want to read about death and dying? It’s inevitable, as I’m sure we all agree. However, IMO, reading about how to overcome the fear of … is hardly going to make it more palatable.
Sorry, Mak. Not my cup of tea.
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Does that mean you’re uncomfortable with the idea of dying?
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I’m far, far more uncomfortable with the idea of being feeble and senile. When I can’t clean myself, it is time to go. I am 57, so it ain’t that far away!
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O.M.Gawd! If you’re worried about such things and you’re not even 60, I hate to think how you feel when you reach 80 … and up.
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Maybe the same way. But more attuned to the fact of nearing end
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I agree. I’ll be renting my helium tank if/when that moment looks near.
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Just send it over to me
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That part I agree. I wouldn’t want to be a vegetable but I want to live as long as I possibly can
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I’m in my seventies and I’ll consider myself short changed if I don’t get at least another 20 years of mentally active life. I’m less concerned with physical frailty, having many family members whose bodies gave out long before their mind did. It’s a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind being frail, it doesn’t matter.
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No more than most people. I just don’t care to spend my time reading and thinking about it. It will happen when it happens. I feel like I’m prepared, but no one really knows until that moment comes.
Are YOU comfortable with the idea of dying?
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It depends on the day. Personally I think examining temporality is incredibly important as humans have come to distance ourselves from that reality.
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When one is young and comparatively healthy, it’s generally not front-of-the-mind. As one gets older, I think most people focus on it a bit more. And of course, if one is old and in failing health … it becomes VERY real.
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I am in the small group of young who have always been interested in death and dying. I am not paralysed by the thought of it, no, it just lingers there as one of those things that is inevitable.
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I think that might be related to culture and identity as well. Death is disguised and ignored in the developed world. Elsewhere it’s much more a part of people’s every day life.
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There is a lot of truth in this.
When death is always nearby, it’s reality can not be ignored
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I agree.
I remember in the mahabharata, they say the greatest folly is that each day a person dies and we continue to live as if we are immortal
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I read about life and death seeing they are a two faced coin.
My death doesn’t give me any comfort.
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Actually, The Seventh Seal is one of my top five movies ever! Even in subtitles (I don’t speak fluent Swedish)
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I will check it out
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Since I do feel regret at dying, Iโll read the article. I actually like reading some of this kind of stuff. I donโt fear dying and I will take care of it before Iโd ever go into a nursing home, but I hate the thought of ceasing to exist for all time…never again …hard for my to come to grips with that for some reason. So much Iโll never know…it pisses me off.
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It pisses me off too.
And sometimes something happens that brings the message close home: an age mate dies, a cyclist is killed on the road
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Death isn’t something I fear. Rather its being annoyed that I’ll never discover all that I want to know. That rather pisses me off! No matter how frail I become, I’ll leaving this life under extreme protest.
Although I’ll be voting in favour of the End of Life Choice Bill (voluntary euthanasia) in the upcoming referendum, I have absolutely no intention ever of taking advantage of it. In the remote chance that my mind mind goes before my body (not something that happens in my family) then I’ll not be in a position to choose.
I suppose if one considered that requiring aged care was a burden on others then wanting a way out might be understandable. However I don’t regard any care that one might need near the end of life any more of a burden that the care one needs at the beginning of life. It’s life – messy and beautiful on the way in and on the way out.
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Here is a good book about death…interesting in detail and written with humor and seriousness..The Thing About Life is that One Day Youโll be Dead by Shields
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I will check it out.
How are you keeping on Mary? I have not seen in many moons now.
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Iโve been fine…busy with a couple of hobbies…I read a lot and just get behind on blogs at times…and the politics in the US is maddeningly outrageous and I probably spend too much time on that.
I have another book you may like…Iโll mention it when Iโm closer to the end.
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Sorry I am responding to this so late.
Yes, your politics or the little I see of it is maddening and looks similar to what we see around here a lot.
I like your book recommendations. I have never been disappointed.
I got a copy of Shields book and I am not sure about how it makes me feel at times. Keep well.
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I think youโll like the other one better…youโre too young yet for the Shields book. Ha!
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I think so. In some places it is too depressing
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By recognising that all things of the universe come from the same source and by keeping to the unity, one achieves emancipation of spirit, which overcomes the individuality of things.
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