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Next: is dread of death a good thing?
Consider the art that has sprung from this theme, and the social patterns and protocols, the effects on individuals' relationships of willingness or reluctance to take the risks of loving, or of loss and grieving, for examples, balanced against those of cultures that regard death as simply the natural and necessary, sometimes welcome passage into the next lifetime, and life itself as something less dear than our own culture views it.
Thanks, everyone who responded to the first questions... I look forward to what you have to say about this. If you are inspired to make a post of it, just plant the link here, and I will follow...!
posted by
Ciel
on July 20, 2005 at 11:09 AM
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Excellent questions.
the only thing that keeps me going (from losing my brother and sister) is to know that I will one day see them again...that is what comforts me...I know I will meet all them that I lost again one day
posted by
_Symphony_
on July 19, 2005 at 11:04 AM
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Ciel -
Good question to ponder. I've always looked at death that way, but I have never wondered how it affected my art. Would have been a good question to ponder while I was on vacation.
posted by
sannhet
on July 19, 2005 at 9:42 AM
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ciel
once i questioned it seriously, the idea of death no longer has such a hold on me. it really helps to question assumptions.
posted by
avant-garde
on July 17, 2005 at 1:53 PM
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good to read you before you left... 
I just read (minutes ago) this:
O my God, what irony it is
that we are at the bottom of hell,
and yet are afraid
of immortality.
~Rumi
seemed like these went well together.
posted by
Metta
on July 17, 2005 at 1:18 PM
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Ciel... This is a comforting thought...although I think it is more than that. As I tell a 91 year old neighbor who thinks she'll not see her grandchildren grow up, "Don't be too sure about that." She knows the implication.
posted by
reasons
on July 17, 2005 at 1:08 PM
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