Does death surround you?
If death has surrounded you, is it a blanket of warmth or a smothering ice sheet closing in?
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Neither. It’s a vast emptiness.
It’s neither warm or cold. But it brings a vast sadness for the pain I was going to cause others.
It’s a merciful release valve from this pressure cooker called life!
From the J.G. Ballard novel and David Cronenberg film Crash:
James Ballard: You should’ve gone to the funeral.
Catherine Ballard: I wish I had. They bury the dead so quickly. They should leave them lying around for months.
Not really. I think Karma will decide that. Dreadful or blissful!
No, not as of yet, I always make sure the salmon mousse is thoroughly prepared.
You never know…when death finds you, you may make a new friend.
Sounds pretty grim, you reap what you sow…
Technically, yeah. People die every day. Which also means I’m surrounded by life, if I am able to percieve death, even if I am not directly affected by it. At least, not until I die I guess. As far as glorifying death in a way which requires me to be alive to do so, I don’t indulge in anything so meaningless. Time enough for the earth when I’m dead, as Conan would say.
I’ve been to two funerals in three days! All my hero’s are going away. Kind of a cold, lonely feeling. Realizing that I probably fill these same shoes in someone elses life.
Just sadness at all I will be missing, the kids, the grand kids, the great great grandkids, the great, great, great grandkids, etc. Sad knowing they will miss me. But…when it happens I won’t know a thing about it.
It surrounds us all. I think of it as part of the natural cycle of life.
I have no idea as, unlike most of you jellies, I am surrounded by Life!
Well, I kilt me some aphids today…..
Death surrounds us all.
It is a warm, smothering ice blanket that flaps loosely in the winds of change.
Thanks, Obama
Death has never surrounded me. It has, however, visited many people I know and love over the years. Some day, it will visit me too.
“Shed no tears
For the suicide
For he has made his choice
To rot
Beneath the earth
As we rot
And live
And breathe.”
Shed No Tears by Flipper.
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Indeed, death is apart of existence, it is a necisity to make room for those who has exhausted there time here on earth, that’s why were here. But you knew that already Sister.
Death has surrounded me since I was a small boy hundreds of years ago. Death is natural.
Death is a part of life. I’ve heard it said we begin dying from the moment we are born.
@Mastema Hundreds of years? Heh heh, I’m no longer the oldest on this site. :)
In my garden I often find the metaphor. Death is a part of the natural cycle of things. They sprout, they flower, they reproduce, and they die. At any of these stages they may provide sustenance for other life forms that are sprouting, flowering, reproducing or dying.
@ Some Ghost That’s right, like a bottle of the finest red wine.
Come on now, are you even old enough to drink wine? :)
Surround me? I am a tasty morsel. Death has savored me, consumed me returned me to savor again later. I had several dead babies happen before one was tenacious enough to last until birth. I’ve been dead. I recall the first burial I attended. I was fourteen months old. It was raining. There was a yellow umbrella. I enjoyed seeing it, but it didn’t seem to match the somber mood of the day.
Death wants me, and fears me.
Chew on that! ;-P
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“Satan rejected my soul.”
@Some Ghost. I’m older than the thought of death alone.
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