#death is inevitable

[delusionsofanuntamedmind]

i used to think it was stupid to fear death, i thought it was actually comforting. why would you be scared of something unavoidable? but now i find myself terrified by it. the thing that once comforted me is what haunts me now, it’s unavoidableness. i’ll go the same way i came, alone. all my thoughts, all i’ve done will vanish. i can not imagine not existing. i have once not existed, it wasn’t scary, it was nothing actually, there is not a before me but, is there an after?

#girlblogging #girlhood #im just a girl #girl problems #this is a girlblog #just girls being girls #just girly thoughts #female rage #girl blogger #just girly stuff #girl things #girl thoughts #hell is a teenage girl #this is what makes us girls #just girly things #girly stuff #death is inevitable #im so scared #i’m scared

[viktheviking1]

I have recently been told I have an Irish ancestor who's cause of death is simply labeled: Swords

Plural.

#shitpost #tumblr shit #cause of death #history #ancestry #ancestors #tumblr shenanigans #swords #sword fighting #death is inevitable #morbid humor #mortality #dark humor #cursed #death before dishonor #irish history

[cl0wnwiththesickness]

decay *digital collage using pictures i took of a dead opossum a few days apart from each other*

#beauty of decay #decaying #animal bones #possum #opossum #tranformation #changeisgood #change is inevitable #death is not the end #death is inevitable #nature is everything #beauty of nature #nature is wild #nature is amazing #nature is scary #nature is awesome #nature is beautiful #nature #everything changes #transformation #collage #digital art #digital collage #art #artwork #collage art #roses #dead roses

[squeakynoises]

"neckless duck can't hurt you"

neckless duck:

#cackling #shitposting #death is inevitable

[remembertheplunge]

The body will fall away

January 24, 2022. Monday. 8:39pm

Good time to start a new journal. 

Just as a new chapter in life rolls out.

Cardiologist nurse, 4:40 pm today said “You have moderate aortic stenosis.”

A callus has formed on the aorta valve, causing blood to, well, I guess, be pushed back into the heart..I’m not sure.

Nurse said that people who have it go on to live another 30, 40 or 50 years longer. Really. Doesn’t  she know that I’m 66 1/2. Maybe 5 or 6 hours longer. Or days!  (I’m joking here :))

So, just as in the New Dimensions Post Cast poet’s poem, death comes to visit.

He was sitting there, holding my arm, as I reviewed a journal awaiting the nurse at Stanislaus Cardiology.

He encouraged me to get the book out there as soon as possible.

Earlier, a teeth cleaning. My gums were parted, they could see the bone. Cavity, a major one.

So, a bit unnerving, but death is inevitable.

As James Hillman said on learning that his death from cancer was imminent “It shocks the conscious."

The teeth, the heart say “The body will fall away”

End of entry

Notes:

Late summer  2023, I returned to the Cardiologist’s office to get the results of an echo test on my heart. The nurse said now the stenosis was severe.

Knowing this, I still swam from just off Alcatraz island to Aquatic Park, San Francisco ion September 23, 2023. As a Doctor friend of mine told me before the swim “If you don’t feel symptoms before the swim, do it. If you die out there, you will have died doing something you love to do."

I finished the swim in 1 hour 20 minutes. I felt fine.

New Dimensions  Radio is a weekly program the features interviews with progressive authors and thinkers. It began in 1973.

James Hillman was an author, philosopher and progressive thinker who died in 2011.

I had a talk yesterday with a friend of mine who is a few years older (I’m 68). He also has heart issues, different than mine, though. We both agreed, it’s not the quantity. It’s the quality  of life that counts.

#1/24/2022 #journaling #writing #aging aortic stenosis #death is inevitable #quality over quantity #Alcatraz swim #dying doing what you love #risk

[captainpirateface]

#deathcore #death is inevitable #death is nothing to us #death is coming #death #the grim reaper #grim reaper #captainpirateface #bipolardepression #chemicalimbalance #wtf #captainpiratefacelovesyou #sighthsandsoundsofinstagram #sights and sounds of tumblr #don't fear the reaper #blue oyster cult #spotify

[catgirl-catboy]

Look, I get it. Using fantasy means to extend your life is a common trope because it talks about how to cope with the inevitability of death.

But once, just once, I want a character to have become immortal/supernaturally long lived, maybe in a flashback maybe partly through the story and spend the rest of it trying to die.

I just think it'd be interesting.

#trope talk #tropes #death is inevitable #immortal characters

[itslychee]

Everyman is a book about passing away. It explores the lives that preceded a particular death as well as the idea that death is a horrific experience that everyone must go through.

I had a deep realization about life after reading the play or narrative of Everyman. It is undeniably a fact that as we age, we are also getting closer to dying, which is inevitable. Humans have a tremendous inclination to act in ways that feed our flesh, which can occasionally lead us to sin. Even though the consequences are not good, we enjoy our remaining time by acting irrationally. No material possession we have on earth can be taken from heaven. We are unable to take anything from the world to heaven. Everyman represents mankind, which depicts all human activities on earth. Nobody follows everyman into hell; that is just the way things are.

We won't know when we will pass away until it is too late; death will come to us like a glimpse of an eye. Because of this, it's crucial that we make the most of our time on earth by acting morally upright. God wants us to keep him in mind because if we follow his plan, he will grant us eternal life.

photo reference: Pinterest

#everyman #death is inevitable

[the-entity-down-the-street]

"{X interest} is cringe!"

Idk, you're the one wasting your precious, limited heartbeats of time making internet strangers feel bad about the joys they find in life.

Y'know, instead of building your own interpersonal connections, hobbies, and interests.

Sounds pretty cringe to me bruh. Just saying

This applies to any hate group BTW

#cringe is dead #i am cringe but i am free #cringe culture is stupid #anti cringe culture #every second you waste on hating people's innocuous obsessions brings you closer to your grave #memento mori #get a fucking life #the grim reaper laughs at your pathetic bitterness #death is inevitable #death mention #a community built on the flames of hate will inevitably burn down #your grave will be cold #touch some grass #anti hate

[artfortheartgod]

January is over already jesus christ.

#artfortheartgod #animation #atlantis the lost empire #disney atlantis #Mrs. Packard #death is inevitable #my gifs #happy birthday

[truepotatogod]

Fun potato fact #17:

You can't stop all the potatoes!

#potato #fact #fun facts #potato facts #death is inevitable

[lemonbeemon]

Thinking about the inevitability of death in AOT.

That no matter how hard any of them try it will never be enough. That their fates are set in stone before they are even born. Eren, even Eren, is enslaved by what's written in the sand. How can we say his plan was his and not another shifter, born hundreds and hundreds of years before? How can we be certain it was Ymir who sent for her savior and not one of her children? Or her children's children? Or the boy from the future, who wanders too close and too carelessly towards Eren's tree?

Is their sacrifice worth it? Was it all just endless suicide for the sake of death? Brother's betraying their own kin. Friends smiling, training, loving, their victims until the very end. Bertholdt being glad to see them in his last moments. Hoping, believing, desperately that they would save him from the friend he forced away in anger and fire. Only to scream for the people he grew to love through circumstance in his final moments. Only for him to cry when Armin sees him in his post-succession nightmare. Armin, who couldn't stomach the blood on his hands, now forced to bathe in it for the sake of his home, his family, and the war he was pulled into.

And when the war is gone, so are the others. Those who lived are not close, save for a few, but even when they call each other friends they know they are all longing for the one's they loved more. Its not enough to be together, not anymore, they know each other too well now. True happiness died with their innocence inside the walls and behind an onslaught of military propaganda.

Extremists on both sides want them dead, so they die. And years and years later, their homes are eradicated from the world, replaced with the uneasy memory of history. And when their names are gone, their children still suffer. A little boy and his dog wandering to seek refuge, to see freedom, under that cursed tree. And when he falls, like that little girl so long ago, will he too be alone? Or will they be there, Ymir and her liberator? Locked once more inside their endless afterlife, where all of their loved ones have long since been banished.

#angst #aot #snk #attack on titan #death is inevitable #therefore I must mourn aot once more #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #armin alert #annie leonhart #reiner braun #connie springer #jean kirschtien #pieck finger #levi ackerman #survey corps #aot warriors #its sad bitch hours #sorry not sorry

[cl0wnwiththesickness]

opossum wet specimen

#preserved #animals #taxidermy #opossum #possum #wet specimen #rodent #death is not the end #animal death #death is inevitable #nature is weird #nature is beautiful #nature is art #nature is wild #nature is scary #nature #dead animal #pretty #beauty of decay #beauty #specimen #photography

[fakeasmr]

For the "Henry Kissinger is dead" celebration stream, can we have the stream at 7?

I'm not streaming about how a war criminal responsible for the deaths of millions died in his bed after living to 100 that sounds depressing as hell

#death is inevitable #but this is not the one he deserved

[beemintty]

stories about death are also stories about life.

trope talk: personifying death, overly sarcastic productions

#its been a wild fascination of mine to look at death personified #and i think that comes from my deep love of life #ironically #i was watching a video on yt about this whole concept and now i am actually crying #death is inevitable #and when we personify death we come closer so understanding that #we come closer to understand life #life and death are one in the same #some part of me hopes that death is kind #on life #on death #on storytelling #on personification #personification #my thoughts #thoughts #quotes

[alpaca-clouds]

Death Positivity

Talking about religion this week, so let me talk about something kinda related. Death positivity. Which is kinda a weird topic to talk about, but I also think it is a very important one.

Humans are afraid of death.

Or rather, I would say that most living things are afraid of death - but not all living things are completely aware of death being a thing. They just instinctually fear it, because instincts are after all about keeping us alive. Still, animals do need some higher cognitive function to grasp death. Building on what I wrote yesterday: Yeah, it seems like some apes, whales, elephants and corvidae are aware of death and that life ends. Not all animal species are, though.

Point being: We humans kinda hate the idea of being no longer alive. About ceasing to exist. We always have been very big around the idea of finding ways to prolong life, with people since ancient times trying to find a way to archive immortality.

But... 1) We probably will not archive immortality, because living things just are going to die. And 2) it probably would also not be a good thing if we did.

Still, modern culture did make a big effort of kinda keeping everyone away from death. While a hundred years ago it was fairly common that people died in their homes, they tend to die in hospices these days or hospitals. The dead body then moving over to a funeral home. People do no longer themselves take care of their dead. And the dead bodies usually either get treated in a way to make them look pretty and alive for an open casket funeral... Or that cascet stays closed. Keeping the living very much away from the inevibility of death.

It was during the pandemic that I started to watch the videos by Caitlin Doughty about the death positivity movement. And yes, I realized quickly she is very right about this: We do not talk enough about death. Making the entire thing very much a taboo.

Worst of all: Because of it being such a taboo, people often try to not think about it at all - and do not have any end of life plans. Making everything harder and more traumatizing, when the end comes and everyone has to figure those things out last minute.

So... yeah.

I think we should talk more about death and think about what is gonna happen when we die.

Because... to quote Pirates of the Caribbean: "There is no guarantee of coming back. But dying is dead certain."

Just a thought.

#cw death #death positive #death positivity #dying #death is inevitable #and that's alright #death