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Originally Posted by Angela  even just talking about it creates a ripple of energy that is not at all inconsequential. |
That is interesting- not at all how I think of it- I guess I don't see it as destructive... everyone dies at some point, do we consider every death to be "destructive"? Well I'm rather pro-euthanasia etc and generally pro- the idea that living and dying can be decisions rather than feeling a victim of fate- "I didn't choose to be born" or "I'm scared because I don't know when I'll die"- when I was younger I used to often think "I didn't choose to be born like this", but I've realized I guess I did choose it, and I'm continuing to choose it every day by efforts to stay alive, and I can't use that as an excuse for unhappiness and feeling a victim. Fearing or denying death is silly when it is so inevitable- it is a question of circumstances not of whether it will happen...
As a child had dreams of being part of a group of people where most people chose when they would die and would make their arrangements and then have a peaceful death of their choosing; I also had dreams of death rituals of mixing creatory ashes into soil in a vegetable garden, then all of the person's family and friends nurturing the garden for a season and eating from it, culuminating in a big feast where the person was remembered and grieving was sort of officially finished and the person was thought to have been absorbed back into the lives of their loved ones... wish those dreams were closer to reality, they seemed more realistic than our death-denying culture.