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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[monkeycurious.livejournal.com]

I have lost a number of people close to me, about 4 family members to disease, (heart attacks and cancer), and several other kids I grew up with, all 3 to suicide.

I was going to say I have no gender association with death or Death the entity, but, all of those people were male.

Men live shorter lives statistically. That could be due to higher rates of suicide or car accidents or dangerous jobs that traditionally don't allow women, and you can believe that is because they are sexist or that they believe women should be protected from danger, which could still be inherintly sexist, but it is still an extant cultural belief.

When a women dies in, especially any other way than naturally, I think we are more shocked, more appalled that if it was a man. Less shocked than if it was a child or a puppy, of course.

I don't think Death would be male or female, because I believe they are one thing outside of our cultural bullshit, but I think we believe It prefers men.