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.

Comments

[jothanbar.livejournal.com]

I've had quite a lot of people in my life die. A grandfather and grandmother and an uncle, when I was too young to know. The other grandfather and grandmother, when I did know. My father. A great aunt and a great uncle. A friend at university killed himself, though I didn't find out until long after the fact. I'm inured to it, in some ways, though I get struck by massive grief pangs at random times.

I don't fear my own death. At all. I'm terrified of aging, of dementia, of blindness, of all the things that precede death, but death itself - because I've got no belief in the afterlife, I can't fear it because once it's happened I won't be aware of it. I dwell on the potential death of people I know quite a lot - I have weird mental tangents where I think what might happen to them and almost plan it out.

Nothing really gender-specific to comment.