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Originally Posted by George H.
Death seems a positive to you and I'm not sure why. Yes there is stress, hardship, disappointment, heartbreak but... there is also beauty, wonder, moments of such sublime joy that the heart can barely contain it.
But it really is as simple as I said before. Life is all we have. Death is nothingness. I don't see the allure in that. Is your life so bad? If I was a Jew at Auschwitz or a Palestinian in Gaza I might welcome the nothingness of death. But I'm neither and I don't welcome death. My life isn't great but the stress and hardships I've faced are nothing compared to that. It seems to me that hardship, pain, disappointments and all the rest are how we grow personally.
I accept that this is not your view though. There have been times when it wasn't mine either. I'm not going to try to invalidate your views. I know almost nothing of your life.
Finally, death doesn't scare me... its going to come and there's nothing I can do to prevent it. I'm not happy but I don't wish for death. There are seven cats who depend on me to feed them 
I respectfully disagree. I believe we do have that right. It may even be our duty. And if it were neither I'd do it anyway. |
I do no wish for death nor do I fear it - I simply don't understand the reasons we react to it as we do. To answer your question about my life - I can neither say it has been horrible nor it has been good because I believe we all have problems and any emotional pain is significant n cannot truly be measured because everyone feels pain differently - even in the same circumstances. Some may flunk a test and feel its the end of the world - while to others it doesn't bother them in the slightest; then again that test may mean the first kid goes home to be abused - or he doesn't get into the school he wants - or he may just b extremely sensitive, n the other kid is jyst carefree about it all. So yes, I have had my fair amount of death, abuse, rape, violence, control, etc (reduced down to very general n simplistic terms) in my life - but was it horrible? Just bad? Not really that bad? Really kinda good? - It all depends on the scale of pain the person I am talking to received in their lives. To me - pain is simply that - pain. I hope I make sense in all I am saying to you?