I'd like to start a conversation about mortality. I've been thinking a lot about my own lately for no particular reason I can discern. The feeling that comes upon me when I think of eventually no longer existing is one of absolute dread. It's not paralyzing but I have to actively push it out of my thoughts. I wonder, not jokingly, if this is the beginning of a "midlife crisis".
I'm surprised that so few people want to talk about their own death! 😂
@AskTheDevil does the devil not understand sarcasm? 😂 Sympathy for you...
@hallmarc I do. I merely feel no obligation to respond to it in any particular way except how it suits me at the moment.
I find that sometimes we use humor, including sarcasm, to blunt things we're thinking about deeply.
And sometimes just to deflect.
So sometimes I respond to sarcasm literally - not to be a jerk, but because what was said feels like it can be answered.
@AskTheDevil and why should that matter? The people who inherit the mess will live their lives and then die too, unremembered, and the universe will march on, unabated and unamused. Maybe you'll still be around, still causing trouble...
@hallmarc Not everyone dies unremembered. I remember a few of them. : )
@hallmarc I'm not surprised. I've been watching people be afraid to discuss their own death since it was invented.
It's scary. We have instincts telling us not to run towards the death.
But what I feel like people should be a little more scared of is the impact of not being ready for it, and of leaving others behind with a mess we didn't prepare for at all.