Thursday, July 14, 2011

Thinking About Death

I was with my father when he died in 2000. He was in hospice care, heavily sedated, succumbing to pancreatic cancer.

There has not been a day since then, I guess, that I haven't thought about what it will be like to die.

I sometimes wonder, in fact, why I'm still alive. It sometimes feels akin to defying gravity.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gadzooks, hanging out with the bats, man? Starting an Eeyore cult in the VDR? Should I send meals on wheels over?
Soartstar

Anonymous said...

In order for you to be here, imagine this:

Every one of your ancestors going back millions or billions of years had to live long enough to successfully mate---the humans, the pre-humans, all the way back to the amoeba.

All those generations of successful matings to produce one Mcarp.

And one John X, now that I think about it. But all that ends with us, because we're without replicants.

(SOMEBODY had to stop this insanity, right?)

John X

aku said...

dont sad. all human in world will be die