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"Why do ordinary thoughts gain such credibility just because their source is dying?" I feel a bit guilty for thinking like this while reading the thread. Mayb
by j4pe 16y ago
"Why do ordinary thoughts gain such credibility just because their source is dying?"
I feel a bit guilty for thinking like this while reading the thread. Maybe a raw vision of mortality makes us emotional, less cynical, and we're more receptive as a result. Maybe we look to last words as an encapsulation of a person's life philosophy, as if they became wiser in the knowledge of imminent death. Or maybe an overly detached analysis is just another reaction to a reminder that we're going to die.
- forensic 16y agoBecause dying people have few ulterior motives. It's ancient wisdom that dying people speak the truth. "Living" people with "stuff to say" are more often than not full of bullshit.
- ajays 16y agoIt used to be that a dying person's confession was considered unvarnished truth in a court of law. More on "Dying Declaration" at the Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_declaration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_declaration