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Especially powerful for me was > My dad didn’t have a tidy ending. I won’t. And neither will you. Our lives will not be a slow positive upward slope before we
by johnwheeler 5y ago
Especially powerful for me was
> My dad didn’t have a tidy ending. I won’t. And neither will you. Our lives will not be a slow positive upward slope before we die in our sleep surrounded by our loved ones.
- wsc981 5y agoNot exactly the same, but that quote reminded me of quote from the Donnie Darko movie: “everyone dies alone” [0]. I believe this is very much true. —— [0]: https://youtu.be/8j1IMBM-QyE https://youtu.be/8j1IMBM-QyE
- owlninja 5y agoIn a similar vein this Jason Isbell lyric always sticks with me > There's one thing that's real clear to me: No one dies with dignity
- schrijver 5y agoSome absolutely do. Of course they are sad, and afraid, but they’re lucid about what’s happening. They make their affairs in order and they say their goodbyes. And they die with dignity. I’ve seen it up close, and it’s impressive. For the longest time I thought it wasn’t possible. I’d read Simone de Beauvoir’s Une mort très douce, where she chronicles her mother’s death, and the conclusion is more or less that even with a live well fulfilled we all end up raging against the dying of the light (a reference to Dylan Thomas). It sounded very reasonable to me. But now I know it does not have to be like that.
- techer 5y agoYou die with yourself. You are never alone…
- bspammer 5y agoMy granddad died surrounded by his loved ones, pretty peacefully really (he was jacked up on morphine). I know you mean alone in a kind of existential way, but at the end of the day I've learned that if you have that depressing outlook on things, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy of misery.
- beervirus 5y agoFirefly too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txk7MxsyVMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txk7MxsyVMw