remembrance
Some kid got killed next to a footy field nearby a few months back. Not sure what happened but i believe he got run over. Sad, yes. Uncommon, sadly no. The thing is, the parents, friends and effected people are using a lampost at the scene as a remembrance post. I don't get it. I'm not souless, I understand the sentiment, in fact that's what I'm putting under question.
When people are killed and there's no body, the powers that be create a monument as a reference or focus point for people to grieve. Famous examples being 9-11 and Pearl Harbour. It makes sense and I think it's a nice way for some people to start the process of acceptance and hopefully moving on. Not moving on and forgeting the lost, just moving on in sense of their own existence. I'll never forget family and friends that have died but I won't let the loss and grief ruin the time I have left here. Instead I remember them and have that memory as a positive anchor inside me. So anyway, I get the idea that a point of focus can be created to help fill the void when there's nothing left to say goodbye to. What I don't get is to do it when there is.
Death, a final and definite end to our experience here seems to hold too much sway in our thoughts. When someone dies we spend the time thinking about the end rather than the start or the during. I mean a horrible car accident or hit-and-run, although devastating, shouldn't be the part of someone's existance that matters the most. Surely moments of joy or achievement should be?! I mean if someone was a wicked footy player wouldn't the field they made a club record on be a better place to gravitate towards than the piece of sealed roadway that bore witness to their last breath? I think it should. I think we should celebrate people's lives rather than their exit strategy, chosen or otherwise.
quote for the day:
"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65) Roman philosopher and playwright.
When people are killed and there's no body, the powers that be create a monument as a reference or focus point for people to grieve. Famous examples being 9-11 and Pearl Harbour. It makes sense and I think it's a nice way for some people to start the process of acceptance and hopefully moving on. Not moving on and forgeting the lost, just moving on in sense of their own existence. I'll never forget family and friends that have died but I won't let the loss and grief ruin the time I have left here. Instead I remember them and have that memory as a positive anchor inside me. So anyway, I get the idea that a point of focus can be created to help fill the void when there's nothing left to say goodbye to. What I don't get is to do it when there is.
Death, a final and definite end to our experience here seems to hold too much sway in our thoughts. When someone dies we spend the time thinking about the end rather than the start or the during. I mean a horrible car accident or hit-and-run, although devastating, shouldn't be the part of someone's existance that matters the most. Surely moments of joy or achievement should be?! I mean if someone was a wicked footy player wouldn't the field they made a club record on be a better place to gravitate towards than the piece of sealed roadway that bore witness to their last breath? I think it should. I think we should celebrate people's lives rather than their exit strategy, chosen or otherwise.
quote for the day:
"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65) Roman philosopher and playwright.
posted by brent c. airey at 6:14 PM
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Yep, we just seem to top ourselves as far as insane time-filling bullshit on a stick goes. Just when you think we have reached the Edge of the Universe as far as studpid shite goes we seem to build a bridge and keep on truckin'.
