A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished
Mar. 5th, 2007 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI think about death all the time.
A couple of years back I was mightily struck with the idea of earthly immortality. There was this mad doctor who was going round saying human life could be indefinitely extended and I was thinking, "Wheeee- what fun it'll be- on and on and on and ...."
Now I can't imagine what got into me. Milennium fever perhaps.
Because now I take comfort- great comfort- from the thought that sooner or later this giddy ride is going to stop. It puts things in perspective. Why get all worked up about- I don't know- the idiocy of the human race- when- quite shortly- I'll be stepping from the car and out through the turnstile?
I'm 56- and closer to my end than my beginning. Happy days.
A couple of years back I was mightily struck with the idea of earthly immortality. There was this mad doctor who was going round saying human life could be indefinitely extended and I was thinking, "Wheeee- what fun it'll be- on and on and on and ...."
Now I can't imagine what got into me. Milennium fever perhaps.
Because now I take comfort- great comfort- from the thought that sooner or later this giddy ride is going to stop. It puts things in perspective. Why get all worked up about- I don't know- the idiocy of the human race- when- quite shortly- I'll be stepping from the car and out through the turnstile?
I'm 56- and closer to my end than my beginning. Happy days.
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Date: 2007-03-06 05:15 pm (UTC)But I'm not sure we really shut ourselves off from death. Look at all those TV shows set in hospitals...
All those films and TV shows featuring gruesome homicides and forensic procedures and autopsies...