Deth Metal

DEATH

The average lifespan in the US right now is 79 male and 81 female, thereabouts, with 70 and 75 the numbers for the world at large.   You live, then you die.  Death is the permanent irreversible cessation of biological functions that sustain a living organism.  We are all dying, approaching death, getting closer to the endpoint.   From cradle to grave.  Tick talk.  Death is universal, and final.  Benjamin Franklin said "Nothing can be said to be certain, but death and taxes."    Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust.  Once a dead man, always a dead man.   You die, you're dead, that's it.   The End.  Buddha said, everything is impermanent.  Even diamonds aren't forever.   God is dead (Gone Over Dead).    Death is everyone's fate.   The final destination of everyone's journey.   The end of the line.  Nihility, nullibiety, and nonexistence.  Like a bubble, we all pop.  Our nada, who art in nada, nada be thy name...    The universe is cold, meaningless, and indifferent.  All the stars will wink out.  You make your own meaning, like pleasure or fighting, in word or deed.   "Little death" is the French idiom for orgasm (petit mort).   Cellular replication, and shortening telomeres, are the biological process of senescence, aging, and dying.   There isn't an afterlife of heaven, hell, or immortality - only Oblivion.  All is forgotten.  

There is good death and there is bad death.   Bad death is under the illusion and hope for eternal life or immortal bliss.   Either in fear of hell, or in hope for heaven.   There is almost no reason to believe in either.   Turritopsis adornii is an immortal jellyfish.   They say God is love, and love never dies.  But we must all surrender to the inevitable.  We are human, and we all age, grow older, in a process of implacable fading, getting frail and forgetful, failing, going blind, deteriorating, decaying, and dying, in our "golden" years.  There are worse things than death.

A good death is peaceful, the conclusion of a meaningful life, free of avoidable suffering and distress, with a sense of closure, and surrender to eternal rest.  Even better, with the respect and gratitude of many loved ones, in family and friends.   Death is not to be feared - it is only the absence of consciousness, awareness, and feeling.   There is no pleasure - or pain;  merely eaten by worms and bugs, and pushing up daisies, and decay of bones to dust.   Life goes on.

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OADM AADM

You die, you’re dead, that’s it

You live, then you die

Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust - church of England’s book of common prayer

    (from Genesis)

Shakespeare -  To be or not to be, that is the question….

What dreams may come in that sleep of death - Hamlet

“For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to be hoped was that there should be a huge crowd of spectators, and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”  - Camus, The Stranger

Zed’s dead - Pulp Fiction

Life is a cabaret, old chum - Liza Minelli

L’ Chaim!  “to life!” - Judaism

    LEVity and FUN for EVeryONE!

Everything is impermanent -Buddha

The universe is cold, meaningless, and indifferent  - Camus

Death, thou shalt die! -John Donne

Aging and senescence is inevitable, implacable, (impossible?) to defeat

Immortality is not desirable, blindness, frailty, decay, and forgetfulness, e.g.

Turritopsis nutricula is the only example of immortality in Nature (I think)

Death is Hated, the ad (advert?)….aversion (to pain, say)

“Little death” is orgasm (petit mort) - French idiom

     life's pleasure, and death's surrender

     finality, with no awareness or feeling

Gone Over Dead (GOD is dead)

D eat H.    Smile, eat forever….  :-0

Mark Twain- The fear of death follows from the fear of life.   The man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Napoleon - Death is nothing but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily

Cowards die many times, the valiant taste of death but once- Shakespeare

Good Death -  free of avoidable suffering and distress, with a sense of closure, at peace, having led a meaningful life.

There are worse things than death.  

Join the party.   Everyone dies.  A sense of commonality and community and brotherhood naturally follows.   You are not alone.   Join the club.   Everyone is mortal.   No one lives forever.

It’s a dead man’s party, who could ask for more, everybody’s coming, leave your body at the door, leave your body and soul, at the door! - Oingo Boingo, DMP

Death, the permanent irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.   PIC.   Get the picture?

Linguistics:   dead dread, death hated, die dye diet (colors, killers). (chance, food, color…)

exit, expiry, end, eternal rest

FATE

The end of the line

Final Destination of life’s railroad (ALL ABOARD) Allah bored

The dark side of the force.   Black as death.   Confusing, delusional… (you don’t “see black”)

    You don’t see anything.  No eyes.  No brain.  No consciousness.  Nonexistence.

Aging is cellular replication, shortening telomeres

Nihility, nullibiety, oblivion, and nonexistence (like a bubble)

other symbols of fugacious, impermanent, temporary, ephemerality-

   bubbles, flowers, hourglasses, candles

   skulls and memento mori

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If I lived forever, I would want Earth to live forever.     Space Travel seems supremely boring.   So, spaceship Earth made as immortal as possible, with all the right conditions for continued life and civilization.  If life is merely information, then I would like to pause the earth, and catch up on all the Reading (!!!).   Live an active day, then spend centuries (?) catching up.  What are people doing and thinking about?  What AREN’T they doing?  I would have a lock pick set and go about residing for thousands of years in everyone’s home sweet home!   I would read all the libraries, and write my own Summary of All Knowledge.   I’d be my own AI.  And I’d probably be on drugs a lot.  I mean, after eating enough sushi to sink a whale.  Or enough thai and Chinese to keep me happy for millennia.  Life is so good, which makes death sad.  That’s not a problem that needs to be fixed by making life worse!  

On heroin for thousands of years?  Finishing writing a thoroughly researched oompendium of All Knowledge?  One subject at a time.   Ecology for a zillion years, to start.  

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