Comments on: #66: Don’t Die. Or Even Consider The Possibility of Dying. https://hownottoactold.com/2008/07/15/66-dont-die-or-even-consider-the-possibility-of-dying/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mauigirl https://hownottoactold.com/2008/07/15/66-dont-die-or-even-consider-the-possibility-of-dying/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:24:37 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-137 You are so right – we hide away the whole prospect of death and it’s no longer viewed as a natural part of the cycle of life.

I have to admit I’m one of those people who keeps thinking if I just make sure to get all my checkups regularly and nip everything in the bud that does pop up, that surely I will never actually die!

]]> By: Lex https://hownottoactold.com/2008/07/15/66-dont-die-or-even-consider-the-possibility-of-dying/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:24:34 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-136 I agree with David. Death should be something we keep in view, not necessarily in a nightly news sense, but in a contemplative and acknowledged sense.

]]> By: David https://hownottoactold.com/2008/07/15/66-dont-die-or-even-consider-the-possibility-of-dying/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:34:33 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=251#comment-135 My mother is in a skilled nursing unit at her retirement community. We’ve noticed that since she had to move out of her independent apartment, her friends don’t come to visit anymore – skilled nursing is the place to go to spend your last weeks or months (or, if you’re really unlucky, years), and they’re obviously afraid that the death that lingers there might be catching, VERY uncool. More people need to be Buddhists or members of those Catholic orders that keep skulls on the dinner table so that death is always in view. – David (P.S. Your site popped up in a Google search because of the “really great passage” you quote from a book by my daughter, Tana French. More really great passages in her second book, “The Likeness,” out this week!)

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