Thread: death with dignity

^ And then she just died, god rest her soul. She was 84.

Sad...........

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Maybe we should just start it of and stick all the old guys in there anyway, blackgang, peterpan, drandy is very old aswell, if they dont go for it then maybe others can write their memorials, although obviously we couldn't have stroller or ant writing blackgangs memorial, "Thank God the ****s dead " wont look to good

very, very old DD, get it right

"Death is always following us, waiting to tap us on the shoulder." Castaneda.

yep, fuk off death, don't bother me you twat

Originally Posted by DrAndy

yep, fuk off death, don't bother me you twat

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

Carlos Castaneda??!! Yeah, he's right up there with Eric Von Daniken and Lobsang Rampa.

Not quite,
but better than the "bury your head in the sand" ostrich attitude to death of Epicurus.

Originally Posted by stroller

Oh my god, the forum really is infested with anti-Americans.

Just a reflection of the real world.

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

Originally Posted by The Basket Weaver

"Death is always following us, waiting to tap us on the shoulder." Castaneda.

Carlos Castaneda??!! Yeah, he's right up there with Eric Von Daniken and Lobsang Rampa.

"And verily I say to thee: Thou art a frenetic foreskin fondler."

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Maybe we should just start it of and stick all the old guys in there anyway, blackgang, peterpan, drandy is very old aswell, if they dont go for it then maybe others can write their memorials, although obviously we couldn't have stroller or ant writing blackgangs memorial, "Thank God the ****s dead " wont look to good

Heres mine.

Listener, If you have a minute or ten
I'll tell you the tale of Peter Pan;
The story is old
But it should be told,
For this tale is as true as you or me:

One night while Peter was out for a stroll,
And it was ere since the mid-hour's toll,
He crossed a young dame
And made it his aim
To get into her pants and skillfully lay her.

This girl, she was such a mysterious thing,
So beautiful and yet still with no ring.
For many a night
They'd meet at a site
Where always she mused at the roses he'd bring.

In daylight his lady had never been seen,
And many who heard of her thought it extreme,
When questions applied
She never replied,
And some said, "Her posture looked just too serene".

Peter ignored all the warnings he heard
For he thought all of them far too absurd,
That "She was a spectre;
No mirr'r could detect her",
Such visions, young Peter deterred.

But listener, you must know what happened therein:
That peter pan soon took quite a spin
When his love's blinded eye
Did fin'ly espie
This dreaded horror he found himself in.

Now Peter took this woman to wed
But on taking his beloved bride to his bed
He let out a scream,
For strange it may seem,
He saw, all along, his bride had been dead!

When I go, I would prefer people to remember me with a smile, or not at all.

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

Originally Posted by The Basket Weaver

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

Carlos Castaneda??!! Yeah, he's right up there with Eric Von Daniken and Lobsang Rampa.

Not quite,
but better than the "bury your head in the sand" ostrich attitude to death of Epicurus.

That's not the point of his quote. It means to stop wasting valuable time in pointless naval-gazing at the unknowable and get on with life.

Death after all, is not some bloke with a scyth standing by your shoulder, it's just an absence of life.
If you prefer to anthropormorphisize death, you're welcome.

It was not my intention to anthropormorphisize, I believe it was a metaphor referring to a force intimate to and beyond the control of every living thing.

And this is the point of disagreement I have with Epicurus, that he is unwilling or unable to recognise how death is intimately intertwined with life, for instance our bodies are constantly under a process of entropy, our cells are dying, organs are getting older, we are all basically dying in slow motion.

At a cellular level. Otherwise, life and death (meaningful ones, like our own), don't touch.

Originally Posted by Sir Burr

At a cellular level. Otherwise, life and death (meaningful ones, like our own), don't touch.

well, life and dying touch, and dying and death are different states of basically the same force, difference being one has defeated life the other is in the process of defeating it. So I would argue they are connected in this way.

No squabbling over death now. You'll each get your turn.

Originally Posted by hooter

I don't do death it frightens the shit out of me.

Do be afraid Hooty. It could be the best thing that ever happened to ya.