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Termyn8or -> Noone is allowed to die (10/23/2009 9:11:31 AM)
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I know it sounds scary but is not meant in a Biblical sense. Dying just creates too many problems. I know that means nobody would be allowed to have babies, but think of all the money that would save.
Dad died in May, and sometime in June or so I thought of someone I failed to call. An old friend of my Grandfather's. He would've definitely went to the funeral, and would run into some people he knows there, but it's too late now. What do you say to someone in that instance ?
So it occurred to me, what if one of us died ? Who would know ? The rest would be sitting here wondering if they just don't like us anymore, lost interest or what ? Even if you have only phone contact with someone, if they croak, somebody else will eventually answer their phone. But what of people who correspond through email or an internet forum ?
In the old days, pen pals might not find out right away, but eventually someone opens their mail. You might get a letter back "This is ____________ and I regret to inform you that ___________ has passed on, etc. etc.". Not only is there nothing like this on the net, people frequently do not even know each others' names.
The privacy is nice, but like a double edged sword it cuts both ways. Or should privacy supercede the grave ? By that I mean do you think that after someone is dead you should not open their personal correspondence ? Once you're dead somebody will be going through all your stuff anyway, but now that notion caught my mind. Maybe there is more than meets the eye to that old phrase "I wouldn't be caught dead <insert bad experience here>".
I don't dwell on death, I think it is a part of life in a way. Let's not get emotional here, this is a topic like any other.
So how do we know ?
Just some Friday morning thoughts. If it squicks you, sorry. Just try to think of it as a "What If".
T
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