tags: Death
1996
January
- 1996 Jan 4
- Immortality
I think that, around the age of 19, you sort of start to realize that you are dying. The foolish will simply deny and ignore this realization. The wise will accept it as fact, and then ignore it, as it is irrelevant. The insane, however, will try to do something about it.
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2000
December
- 2000 Dec 6
- Cigarettes and Snowflakes
Would you trust a doctor who doesn’t care about his health?
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2001
June
- 2001 Jun 10
- How Can I Stop Pining?
Steroid hormones are powerful, powerful things. Just how desperate can a man get, I wonder.
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2003
July
- 2003 Jul 8
- Rivalling Vogon Poetry
Keep the violins going, damn it.
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- Condolences
A moment.
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October
- 2003 Oct 12
- the fragility of life
As I lie here in a hotel room bed, watching my brother, my sister, and my sister's boyfriend sleep as the sun slowly creeps over the horizon, I am content.
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2007
June
- 2007 Jun 23
- by the pricking of my thumbs
So I thought about the story of Snow White, how her mom pricks her finger on a sewing needle, and when she sees a drop of blood upon the white cloth she is sewing, she thinks of naming a daughter Snow White. So she gives birth, and then dies.
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2008
June
- 2008 Jun 22
- unroofing
It's terrible, really. Times like these, when it's sunny and calm and blissful and quiet, is when I worry the most.
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2009
May
2013
October
- 2013 Oct 31
- beginnings and endings
My sister picked up Angel in front of the Sav-On down the hill (long before CVS had bought it) when she was just a senior in high school. Some kid was selling puppies for $10. It must have been sometime after Halloween, and we always used Halloween as his birthday (although we never really knew.) We wondered if she had taken him too soon from his mother. He fit on the palm of my hand, and he wouldn't eat and we were certain he was going to die. But eventually he figured it out. For the longest time, he needed to be supervised, otherwise he wouldn't finish his food.
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2015
July
- 2015 Jul 30
- Morbid Thoughts
This time last year, I was certain that the only things I had to look forward to were burying people and being buried.
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2016
July
- 2016 Jul 18
- All Dogs Go to Heaven
I'd been contemplating death lately. Between the great tragedies of the world and the smaller tragedies of my friends and family, it's the only thing we know for sure.
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