DEATH

Spill your thoughts on the greatest mystery to hit humanity since life :)

No, I cannot delight in death. On Wednesday a man was shot by his son. There is no glory in death, no mystery. Just a bloody body lying on the floor waiting while the police stand guard outside. ---Taylor

I delight in Death. I love what it teaches, whispers, live, live today, love, for tomorrow may not come... Death inspires me to love, server, create. It makes space for new things, new lives, new ideas. Grief, to miss and to mourn, is sad. But Death is just a turning point... -Dawn

"Deserve it! I daresay he does. Many that live diserve death. And some that die diserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement." JRR Tolkien, 'The fellowship of the ring'

Josh

WheniDiE

I would like to die by falling. I have a strange fascination with heights, and I love standing on the edges of balconies, hanging out of windows, lying down on rooftops. My family lived on the seventeenth floor of a condo in Florida for awhile. Almost nightly, I'd go and see how far I could hang off the balcony without really putting myself at risk. I always wondered what my body and blood would look like, spread out on the bushes and tennis courts. What it would feel like to fall all seventeen stories. Would it be like flying? Would I be afraid, or peaceful? Would I fight it?

 Death comes clanging in the fog
 Silent as a fading beam of light
 Night descends as you ascend
 A beam of soul
 In all you know
 /I/ know that trees melt to the ground
 And seeds spring up without a sound
 Like the ebb and rise of the tide
 Not an end
 Just a pause.

When I was maybe eight or so, it suddenly hit me one night that I too would die. I would cease to exist, and I would never know what happened at my funeral, to the people I knew, what the next day's newspaper comics would say. I wouldn't have a clue because there would be no more me, I wouldn't be floating around somewhere just knowing things. I started crying quietly, and remained completely terrified of death for a long time. A couple of years ago, I realized that since there would be no more me, I would not have the chance to sit around feeling sorry for myself or regretting things or remembering how terrible dying might have been. This cheered me up immensely, and I am no longer so scared. My only problem with death is I doubt mine will be for anything. I should have been a French Resistance fighter. Emma

I mostly think of Death as just a point in the cycle. You are done being assembled in this form, now your constituent parts live on in other shapes. I don't believe in the continued exsistance of the soul or spirit- and why should it? I will be the souls and spirits of many worms,a couple trees, and a patch of calcium-rich subsoil. If that's not eternal life, I'll pass, because it's close enough. I also like to remind myself that you are only alive to the extent that you can die., and that, like every living thing, I am working towards my ultimate duty of being eaten by some other living thing. Not to say this makes it any easier to cope with an unjust death or that I am eagerly awaiting the first opportunity to die...

                                                 Chris B...

Let's see... Death is when life is finished... It's the end... -NickV

• Are you so sure of everything? ~Erin
• i am. and the great thing is, even if i'm wrong, i'm still covered! hah! -cory.

Oooh death..how wonderful![1] i'm not saying i want to die..but i like the thought of being bodyless, and just being there. ~Alyson

'Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure."' - Peter Pan

-marina

Death is amazing and wonderful. Death gives life meaning, interest, entertainment, facination, birth itself. I would not wish eternal life on my worst enemy. -Dawn, who is going to die one day and likes the idea.[1]

I don't think death is even remotely dark. Grief is, and I think that is why people think death is. If anything, I think death is very bright.[1] ~Erin

• I think your very right! ~Carrie

 "I am finished    
    like the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts
       from the loom."

~kimberly

 a toast!
 to a soul going Nova
 and finding it's sparkling retreat.
 to light and life
 finding testament in silence.
 here's to we who have died
 we who shall die
 and the undying in all of us

-Miranda

Wow! That's great, Sonja! I absolutely second the sentiment. -Chris B...

[1] ya bunch of wierdos