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Death
You think Death a way out? I'm
sorry but how do you know that you're not already dead? Prove to me that you're not dead. Why don't you ask someone. Who would
you ask? How would you know that they're not a figment of your imaginary
afterlife?
It has been suggested that the form of the afterlife corresponds with your own expectations. As an atheist, for example, perhaps
you would expect to find mere nothingness, but what if your expectations
are rudely ignored. Do you have your own convincing vision of heaven tucked
up your sleeve?
"Many schizophrenics
have their times of heavenly happiness; but the fact that (unlike the
mescaline taker) they do not know when, if ever, they will be permitted
to return to the reassuring banality of everyday experience causes even
heaven to seem appalling.
...Something of the same kind may happen in the posthumous state. After
having had a glimpse of the unbearable splendour of ultimate reality and
after having shuttled back and forth between heaven and hell, most souls
find it possible to retreat into that more reassuring region of the mind,
where they can use their own and other people's wishes, memories and fancies
to construct a world very like that in which they lived on Earth."
Aldous Huxley, 'Heaven and Hell'
"Because of all we've
seen, because of all we've said, we are the dead"
David Bowie, 'We are the dead', from Diamond Dogs
"According to reliable
sources, I died on February 22, 1994 - George Washington's birthday. I
felt nothing special or shocking at the time and believed that I still
sat at my word processor working on a novel called Bride of Illuminatus.
At lunch-time however, when I checked my voice mail, I found that Timothy
Leary and a dozen other friends had already called to ask to speak to
me or - if they still believed in Reliable Sources - to offer support
and condolences to my grieving family."
Robert Anton Wilson, 'Cosmic Trigger III, My Life After Death'
"When the young die,
they're full of beans. Life hasn't exhausted them - why should death?
Anyway, there are always openings in the provinces or even abroad for
the morbidly mobile. Many young and middle-age British dead work in the
Gulf, the States or even fucking Germany"
Will Self, 'How the Dead Live'
"I stood there paralysed, not knowing whether to get a train or not. The crowds all around me at Euston Station were all moving, purposefully, automatically while I just stood, wishing I knew what to do. A phrase suddenly came to my ear, 'don't ever look over your left shoulder when you are week because that is the direction that death will come'. As if hypnotised and completely contrarily I turned to my left and looked back. An immaculately dressed, young, black man was pacing towards me, staring at me. 'That's death?' I said to myself, 'but he's gorgeous!'. He stopped in his tracks, looked confused, turned around and walked away. 'Bloody hell!', I thought, 'I think I've just flirted with death.'"
Christopher Malbonce, Tacking Down The Horizon
Death is a friend who reminds
us to enjoy life.
Sources:
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Heaven and Hell
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We are the Dead |
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Cosmic Trigger III,
My Life After Death
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How the Dead Live |
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Journey to Ixtlan
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The Divine Comedy |
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Ground Hog Day
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What Dreams May Come |
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The Meaning of Life |
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey |
