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Lately death has been on my mind. It has been a running theme in every book, song, or movie, that I have come across in the last week. We watched Band of Brothers over the weekend and last night I read Elizabeth Berg’s novel, “A Year of Pleasures”. It is the story of a widow who relocates to the Midwest after her husband’s death and what she goes through. I cried and cried as I read the book and I have decided that I have to die before my husband. I think he would handle the situation better. In my mind, I have already scheduled his next physical, removed all fat and salt from his diet, and implemented a new walking regiment. Something is really wrong with me. I was reading this morning about these poor people who died in an explosion at a Slim Jim plant. I am hard pressed to come up with anything more depressing than my last minutes being in a burning beef jerky plant. Burning and drowning are just about the worst ways to die in my opinion. Not that there is a good way to die. No one wants to die, well except for martyrs. Does anyone else fixate on crazy crap like this?
It’s funny that you came up on the subject. I have read a book about the 5 people we weet after we die, I also saw a video on another blog earlier today, and the video was what the dying person sees in his last seconds before he dies. Also I heard that someone that I’ve met a few times, he has cancer, the same that my mother had and I could see the scene again in my head. On top of that, the weather is grey for the past 2 days. And I also read last night, a spiritual magazine, and it was talking about the 7 levels or steps when we pass away. So yes, I can say I have a fixation lately on the death issue. Hopefully with the sun being back tomorrow, it will bring britter thoughs
My wife and I have talked about it, but she usually cuts me off, citing it being “too morbid”.
I can’t say that I really have a fixation or that I dwell on it though.
Totally agree with you on the burning and drowning. Fixating? Eh, we all have our moments!
I fixate on death too much, myself. I’m kind of obsessed with the thought of protecting my children from hoards of unlikely and fabricated dangers. I like to feel that it’s normal and probably an offshoot of my controlling side (as in, we obsess because we have no control).
Lol, yes I do. And I have to agree, drowning and burning sound like agonizing ways to leave… suffocation too! Any death method that sounds painful, i dread.
Eaten. The one way I never ever EVER want to die is to be eaten. I think that is probably the worst.
I also read that article about the deaths at the Slim Jim plant. At first I thought that’s not the way I’d want to go, on the other hand, it’s a lot more interesting than, “died in her sleep”. I’d probably live on in legend a lot longer if I died in a Slim Jim plant. Hope your mind is on other things rather than death today!