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> When I first started, several friends speculated that it might give me a deeper appreciation for my own health, and "imbue me with a new vigor for life" Yeah
by saraid216 12y ago
> When I first started, several friends speculated that it might give me a deeper appreciation for my own health, and "imbue me with a new vigor for life"
Yeah, this is basically, "When you think stories actually reflect real life accurately".
The deeper appreciation and vigor for life thing does happen. It's just sort of over-represented because it does double duty as a pretty good plot device.
There's nothing wrong with you if it doesn't happen to you, just as there's nothing particularly wrong with the hundreds of faceless medical staff busily and competently doing their jobs at the hospital where the ER drama is taking place.
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoI dunno. I wonder if the whole "new vigor for life" thing isn't actually just a personality trait coming out. For instance, I think I'll probably respond that way when someone in my family dies. However, I think that because I already know that when Memorial Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day come around each year (and Memorial Day was two days ago, so this is sort of fresh), I don't have any impulse to cry and mourn, but instead to go find Nazis and/or terrorists and/or the Grim Reaper and beat the crap out of them. There might just be some of us who respond to death with an impulse to, well, fight it. EDIT: I'm referring to Israeli Memorial Day, which was in fact two days ago.
- saraid216 12y ago> I wonder if the whole "new vigor for life" thing isn't actually just a personality trait coming out. That would be a pretty sufficient explanation for me. > There might just be some of us who respond to death with an impulse to, well, fight it. There are a good number of such people, yeah.