Do You Respect "Death" ( Archived) (71)

I can't say that I respect death, but no I don't fear it. I know all living things must die at one time or another, if is just the very last part of our physical life here on earth....

Now there are things I respect in a sense. like lets just say a train... I don't fear a train, but I respect the fact that I know it will hurt or kill me if it hits me..... I have respect for things along those lines....JMO

Do I fear it? = YES!
Do I welcome it? = NO!
Do I respect it? = Yes. My way I'm thinking is like this.... if you were meant to go then you were meant to go... as morbid as that sounds God has a plan for everyone (I'm not religious) but I do believe if you were meant to spend a certain time on earth then that is what will happen. We all don't like it when someone close to us is gone but we have to understand that we are born, live and then die. It's just the way it is and for some it's an accident or natural but it's happening and always will.

Of course I do...It is an eventual and something at one time I used to be afraid of....but after much soul searching and healing....I am no longer afraid of it at all..and I know when my times up it's up...soooooo why spend life being afraid if the inevitable....

For my late husband, it was the fear of the unknown. He wasn't sure whether or not there was anything after death.

For me, it would be the fear of it being a slow, painful process like it was for him. I would prefer to go peacefully in my sleep as my two grandfathers did. That would be best. If not, then quickly by whatever method.

As you said, for all living things, the process of dying begins as soon as we're born. It's just a fact, and I agree with Dazzle, more should prepare for it. I used to work in cemetery sales, trying to help people do just that. I can tell you it's easier for the families of those who do than it is for those who don't. I've already told my sons what I want done, and it doesn't take pre-planning.

When somebody is alive you only have an impression of them when you think about it. You might see them, you might feel them but it's all in the mind.

When they die you still have memories - maybe not quite the same thing as the impressions in your brain when they were alive, but still only an impression because we can never have anything more than what is in our minds, can we?

We can keep that person 'alive' in our minds if we wish to, or let that impression slip away and die or we can change it over time - seeing things about them we didn't see when they were alive, and forgetting impressions about them we choose to erase.

That's why history is so confusing - it's all mostly a mere impression of what was and we didn't know what is was when it happened anyway and then we die and then maybe our eyes will open or maybe they'll stay shut just like when we were alive.

The body falls to death,
but our good deeds live on.

The body is always in constant change.
How do I respect something that is changing constantly?
Constant change doesn't represent Truth.
Truth stands alone as never changing.

I've owned my burial plot for 30 years. I want to do a pre-planned funeral for 09. That's the goal anyway. When I slip on that banana peel of life I don't want anyone to go thru a lot of hassles.