2016/01/29 09:30:17
jbow
Moshkito
Hi,
 
A bit strange, but I fit into the surrealist area when it comes to these things ... have a drink ... go party!
 
Celebrate ... the wonderful things that you learned from that person and anything else ... but sitting back and crying is not gonna help. Some folks will be missed, but then you and I don't sit here and say we miss Mozart, Beethoven or Bach ... so end of story!




Yes and no. People are rarely missed for more than a few days except by one or two people and when those one or two people die, they are forgotten, they become what they did. If you aren't Bach or Mozart or John Wayne... you are completely forgotten rather quickly. Most of us don't have any notion of who our great great grand parents were, we may know their name and a story or two but that's about it.. a generation or two farther back and we have to research to even know their name. Life, in this world, is for the living.
Death is always weird to me. People tell me it is natural but to me, it never seems natural, it always seems wrong when someone close to me dies. It seems unnatural, at least to me. Still, I move on I don't forget the dead I knew but life goes on without them, if you know what I mean. One day we are vital and a part of everything and everyone, for better or worse. Then one day we are not and everything and everyone moves on and they don't miss us, except for immediate family or a close friend. I am well aware that I like a great many more people than those who like me but it is what it is.
 
DUST: Fleetwood Mac (Danny Kirwan)
 
When the white flame in us is gone
And we that lost the world's delight
Stiffen in darkness.
Left alone
To crumble in our separate night
When your swift hair is quiet in death
And through the lips corruption thrust to still the labor of my breath
When we are dust, when we are dust
When we are dust, when we are dust
When your swift hair is quiet in death
And through the lips corruption thrust to still the labor of my breath
When we are dust, when we are dust
When we are dust, when we are dust
When the white flame in us is gone
And we that lost the world's delight
Stiffen in darkness
Left alone
To crumble in our separate night
When your swift hair is quiet in death
And through the lips corruption thrust to still the labor of my breath
When we are dust, when we are dust
When we are dust, when we are dust
 
 
2016/01/29 09:33:56
craigb
If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

 
~ Brooke Shields
 
2016/01/29 09:39:17
BassDaddy
craigb
If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
 ~ Brooke Shields 

Just the breathing part.
2016/01/29 10:56:27
jamesg1213
Moshkito
Hi,
 
A bit strange, but I fit into the surrealist area when it comes to these things ... have a drink ... go party!
 
Celebrate ... the wonderful things that you learned from that person and anything else ... but sitting back and crying is not gonna help. Some folks will be missed, but then you and I don't sit here and say we miss Mozart, Beethoven or Bach ... so end of story!




Of course we don't, because they didn't exist in our lifetimes.
 
Just to pick a few at random, I miss Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett and Freddie Mercury. Likewise John Martyn, Stuart Adamson and Gary Moore. I miss Christopher Hitchens, even though I only became aware of him a short while before he died. It seems a shame that such people have gone too soon, and will have no further part to play in what's going on.
2016/01/29 11:05:23
jbow
BassDaddy
craigb
If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
 ~ Brooke Shields 

Just the breathing part.




What he said.
 
2016/01/29 11:24:06
kakku
craigb
If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
 ~ Brooke Shields 

That is a classic line.
2016/01/29 11:26:06
craigb
As if we haven't had enough "real" deaths this month, there apparently is a social media hoax today that Joe Cocker and Leslie Nielsen have just died as well.  Um, no.  They've both been dead for a while now (heck, Joe died on my birthday in 2014, Leslie sometime in 2010).
 
Sheesh! 
2016/01/29 11:41:31
Mesh
kakku
I propose an anti death thread. Say who famous or nice?? person is getting a new born child.



Me...me...me....any day now!!  
 
2016/01/29 13:25:37
Leadfoot
Congratulations Mesh!
2016/01/29 13:31:55
Mesh
Leadfoot
Congratulations Mesh!

Thanks Mr. Leadfoot!!
We're on the home stretch now and can hardly wait!!  
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