Does light die, or move to "sunnier" pastures?
On Aug 7, 1:24 pm, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 Aug., 22:45, retiredjim34 <[email protected]> wrote:> Fran - why not
> consider both living deeply and living forever? Jim
>
> I'm really not sure, Jim, it may have something to do with the fact
> that I generally see death as a natural ending of things - they begin/
> are born, grow, develop, mature, run their course and then reach some
> kind of completion and then decay, die/change into something else. I
> am completely agnostic about "life after death," maybe I'm just
> focussed on life before death ;-)
>
> There are two aspects to my present situation which I think influence
> my position deeply. Firstly, I am forty nine years old and live in the
> reasonable expectation of having around another thirty years to go
> (while, on another level, being of course aware that it could all be
> over tomorrow). It is clear to me that I may well see things very
> differently in twenty to twenty five years time.
> Secondly, as a health care professional, I have spent twenty years
> involved in geriatric nursing and the care of the very seriously
> chronically ill. In this time I have had enormous experience of death
> - generally in the context of the inevitable completion of life lived
> (which is quite different to the experience of those who work, for
> example, in accident and emergency centres). This experience has
> undoubtedly helped me to see death as something natural and
> inevitable.
>
> Do I want to live forever? How should I know, I have no idea of what
> it would be like to live forever! I do know that I want to live now.
> To go further, I very much relish living now, am very attached to my
> life. A decade or so ago, things were very different; as a result of a
> mixture of addiction, depression, marital breakdown, job
> dissatisfaction, etc., I didn't much care. In fact, I spent quite a
> period surviving on the default option that, if it all got too
> unbearable, I could just end it. In the end, I even tried. Strangely
> (or not), the failed suicide attempt was the beginning of fundamental
> changes - in a "positive" direction.
>
> As I mentioned, I have no idea how I'll see things in ten/twenty/
> thirty years time. I hope that my present affirming attitude to and
> experiencing of life will continue. I like to think of me - when I am
> very old and tired (well into my eighties, at least :-)) - rounding
> off my life, seeing it as good and accepting my end with positive
> resignation. To embrace it; as one poet put it, "to cease upon the
> midnight with no pain." But when the time comes perhaps I will, in the
> words of another, "rage against the dying of the light."
>
> Francis
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