thoughts percolating

[rm]

But, instead of telling you them, I have a poll.

What's your relationship to death/Death (capitalization as you prefer)?
Please share any thoughts you have about gender as connected with that.

Thnx.

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[crazycatlady.livejournal.com]

My thoughts on death are that it's a perfectly natural part of life. Banal and straight out of a psychology book. My feelings on death, however, are that it's not something I particularly spend a lot of time thinking about, but sometimes it just strikes me that in a few measly little decades I'm going to be nothing more than a series of memories and a box in the ground. It's sad, I won't deny that. What really gets me is thinking about my loved ones' mortality. I've had friends and family die on me in the past and to be honest, it's sucked. When I was 13 my best friend died. The first thing I wanted to do when I got home from school the day it happened was call her and tell her everything that'd happened, and the minute I realized I couldn't do that, that I could never do that again, was rough. Really rough. At the same time though, it was comforting that she wouldn't know exactly how she died or what happened to her body afterwards. She, in my opinion, deserved better than that.

So...in a roundabout answer, my relationship with death is one of acknowledgement. We try to stay away from each other, but every once in awhile death feels compelled to remind me it's still there.