God's Own Waterboard
My old cyber friend Bill Vallicella has an interesting post on death in which he divides the process into three parts:
There is dying, there is being dead, and there is the momentary transition from the one to the other.I think of a similar three-stage process:
There is living, there is being dead, and there is the transition from the one to the other.Bill's threefold division is doubtless superior to mine, but I want to be honest about how I've long thought because I do have a fear of dying, and that fear is a fear that the process from living to being dead might be painful.
Specifically, I worry that I might choke to death from fluid in my lungs.
That might sound like a weird thing to worry about, but there it is, like God's own waterboard, awaiting me at my time of demise . . .
Labels: Death
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:32 AM
4 comments
4 Comments:
I used to fear death, but now I only the fear of lots of pain during the process.
Cran
Exactly my meaning, Uncle Cran.
Jeffery Hodges
* * *
Living... being dead... transition.
I wonder what I'm going through.
Perhaps I should. That might make me less being dead or dying.
An avid but shy reader of your posts
Thanks for being an avid reader - perhaps you'd enjoy my novella? That's best done through living.
Jeffery Hodges
* * *
Post a Comment
<< Home