Dying in time


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By SE on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 07:34 pm:

    Does anyone else think about dying in time?
    I read Mishima, the japanese writer. He says it is difficult to have a good death after thirty.
    I agree. I know I'll die. I am ok with it. I have outlived many many friends, even at a youthful 40.
    No one wants a slow lingering death.

    Smell you later, get a job.


By Nelly on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 08:32 pm:

    Mishima was a very strange man. I'm not sure he had a good death, either. Good to him, maybe...

    I think about, if I have the luck, knowing when I have to do something, and having the courage to do it while there's still time. But I don't know. Maybe the courage is the first thing to go.


By Platypus on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 11:54 pm:

    Well, if disembowling yourself on a military base with two (or was it one?) followers counts as a not good death, I would say Mishima did not have a good death.


By Nate on Saturday, September 1, 2001 - 01:09 am:

    i have five beers left.


By Antigone on Saturday, September 1, 2001 - 01:28 am:

    I want a slow, lingering death. It should last, oh, about 38,000 years.


By pez on Saturday, September 1, 2001 - 04:23 am:

    i want to die quickly, in a way that won't be seen again within a century.

    i want to die laughing.


By sarah on Saturday, September 1, 2001 - 09:07 pm:


    the only reason i'd like to know when i'm going to die is so that i can spend the six months or so prior to that eating a lot of chocolate and peanut butter.

    i don't really care how i'm going to die, but i'd really prefer not to burn to death.




By Antigone on Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 01:50 am:

    Why just six months?

    Six months...six years...sixty years. Same thing. For the entirety of that time Enya's latest album will still be a shit encrusted collection of recycled chords, motifs, and hackneyed rhythms...an attempt either to recapture past inspiration or to pinch another loaf of a CD from an album contract that has outlasted the patience of the contractee.


By Joe on Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 02:09 am:

    is anyone afraid that when their life gets to where they want it to be,...they might die? i am.


By Alex on Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 02:45 am:

    yes me too, and i dont want to drown.


By Joe on Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 02:48 am:

    it has taken so long for me to get to a place that's right and comfortable. i'm finally doing what i love for a career and i'm with a wonderful woman. i just don't want to lose it.


By Antigone on Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 02:56 am:

    It's OK, Joe. You don't really exist. You have nothing to worry about.


By Nate on Sunday, September 2, 2001 - 01:03 pm:

    energy in phase can give the impression of matter.

    but it ain't.