Once More, With Feeling
May. 19th, 2004 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vollmusWhy is death so sad to everyone? It's like... moving to a new place. Going on a blind date. Taking a mystery adventure holiday.
I don't think that death should be a sad thing, where people think about what is ending. Death should make people think about all the wonderful things that began. No matter where you think you might be going once you die, it shouldn't be something to fear.
For that matter, funerals are entirely too solemn. At my funeral, I want people to laugh and joke and tell stories about how I was when I was alive. I want to be buried in my favorite outfit with my favorite things in my favorite place. I want to be remembered as intelligent and amusing company. I want my casket to be a light colored wood, with pale green or blue fabric inside. I don't want any black to be worn at all. I want people to celebrate my life, not mourn my death.
In all honesty, I can't wait for death. Life is great, but everyone knows about life. How cool will it be to finally understand what no one you used to know could? All of a sudden, you will have the answers. Is there life after death? Oblivion? Reincarnation? You'll know. It's a mystery just waiting to be solved, and you have to figure it out for yourself after you die--there's no true knowledge of death in life, because no one has really exerienced it yet. You can't know 100% that God exists and you will live with him in heaven. You can't know that you had a past life as a butterfly or an Egyptian. You can hope. You can have faith. But believing isn't knowing. And I for one can't wait until I know.
I don't think that death should be a sad thing, where people think about what is ending. Death should make people think about all the wonderful things that began. No matter where you think you might be going once you die, it shouldn't be something to fear.
For that matter, funerals are entirely too solemn. At my funeral, I want people to laugh and joke and tell stories about how I was when I was alive. I want to be buried in my favorite outfit with my favorite things in my favorite place. I want to be remembered as intelligent and amusing company. I want my casket to be a light colored wood, with pale green or blue fabric inside. I don't want any black to be worn at all. I want people to celebrate my life, not mourn my death.
In all honesty, I can't wait for death. Life is great, but everyone knows about life. How cool will it be to finally understand what no one you used to know could? All of a sudden, you will have the answers. Is there life after death? Oblivion? Reincarnation? You'll know. It's a mystery just waiting to be solved, and you have to figure it out for yourself after you die--there's no true knowledge of death in life, because no one has really exerienced it yet. You can't know 100% that God exists and you will live with him in heaven. You can't know that you had a past life as a butterfly or an Egyptian. You can hope. You can have faith. But believing isn't knowing. And I for one can't wait until I know.
