LIVING WITH THE LIVING-
By Bernard Bujold -
An essential tool for keeping an eye on life is Facebook...
Indeed, every week I learn of the death of a friend, and of my thousands of Facebook connections, a good hundred have died over the years, but their page often remains online. A sort of eternal life or virtual tombstone...
I'm always curious about the way people choose to die. Some people at the end of life want to leave lying on a hammock in their garden cottage, looking out over the river; others ask for medical assistance in dying; but many are victims of a stupid mechanical accident or of the human body when it's not a war or the work of a madman! Television dramas are more dramatic, and some have their characters die from a bull...
Personally, if I had the choice, I'd like to die in a church, sitting in a pew, calm and with no human presence other than that of silence, which some people identify with God. I'm not a churchgoer, but I like the concept of the church!
However, in the end, while waiting for D-day, I apply the advice of an acquaintance: "You have to live with the living and leave the dead with the dead, otherwise you become dead too!"
Happy summer 2023!
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By Bernard Bujold -
An essential tool for keeping an eye on life is Facebook...
Indeed, every week I learn of the death of a friend, and of my thousands of Facebook connections, a good hundred have died over the years, but their page often remains online. A sort of eternal life or virtual tombstone...
I'm always curious about the way people choose to die. Some people at the end of life want to leave lying on a hammock in their garden cottage, looking out over the river; others ask for medical assistance in dying; but many are victims of a stupid mechanical accident or of the human body when it's not a war or the work of a madman! Television dramas are more dramatic, and some have their characters die from a bull...
Personally, if I had the choice, I'd like to die in a church, sitting in a pew, calm and with no human presence other than that of silence, which some people identify with God. I'm not a churchgoer, but I like the concept of the church!
However, in the end, while waiting for D-day, I apply the advice of an acquaintance: "You have to live with the living and leave the dead with the dead, otherwise you become dead too!"
Happy summer 2023!
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