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Thu | June 30, 2005
more morbidity
"You will never be so close to life as in the moment before your death."
I had wanted to include that line in the 'illness' "story" but it didn't fit. Perhaps I'll do it later. Or write some other story which does have that line. It seems that, unless you die in your sleep, you will never be more aware of life than when you are about to die. I suppose that assumes that feeling alive has something to do with consciousness, or that consciousness heightens your sense of being alive.
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My take on the life & moment of death statement is that we take things for granted and won't know just how precious life is until we lose it. Take the line from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi - "Ain't it always strange to you that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." It's human nature to want the things we can't have. Life, whether we know it or not, is the greatest gift we have and it make sense to me that at the moment of death - when life is lost forever - life is what we want more than anything else.
Posted by: C on July 6, 2005 09:29 AM