15 Nov 2018, 6:50 am
auntblabby wrote:
TW1ZTY wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
the lyrics are somewhat oblique but refer to lynchings in the south.
I know this song has nothing to do with death but that other song makes me think of this beautiful song by Elvis Presley.
yes, one of his better works.
an Elvis song explicitly about death, is "softly, as I leave you" [(warning, that is a 5 hanky sad song!
)I'll have to look it up later.
In the meantime here's more death stuff.
Charon the Ferryman. In Greek Mythology he guided the souls of the dead to the underworld and in order to ride in his boat over the river Styx they each had to pay a coin which is why the ancient Greeks used to burry their dead with a coin. If they could not pay because they did not have a coin they had to wait 100 years before being allowed into the underworld.
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18 Nov 2018, 12:53 am
Raleigh wrote:
You don't really get to choose how you die unless you suicide, or put out a hit on yourself.
About the illness, those situations can lead to a spiritual growth and euphoria you would never otherwise experience.
About the illness, those situations can lead to a spiritual growth and euphoria you would never otherwise experience.
I have attempted suicide twice and the last time I tried swallowing an entire bottle of pills thinking I would just go to sleep and it would be over.
It was actually very painful. My stomach cramped really bad and I kept feeling like I was going to puke but nothing came out. I was taken to the emergency room and then to the crisis center. I've been to the crisis center so many times I lost count.
Sometimes I really do just want to die but I'm afraid to die at the same time.
But I know it's going to happen no matter what so why not just get it over with?
18 Nov 2018, 12:56 am
18 Nov 2018, 1:01 am
Raleigh wrote:
You don't want to die but you want an end.
And I feel like I'm too damaged to go on living. I really don't have a future or anything to forward to in life because I can't do anything and I'll just be a burden to my mom or my sibilings.
If they aren't around to take care of me I might even end up homeless. I couldn't handle that.
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18 Nov 2018, 1:22 am
TW1ZTY wrote:
Raleigh wrote:
You don't want to die but you want an end.
And I feel like I'm too damaged to go on living. I really don't have a future or anything to forward to in life because I can't do anything and I'll just be a burden to my mom or my sibilings. If they aren't around to take care of me I might even end up homeless. I couldn't handle that.
I've been homeless. no fun, for sure, but it is not necessarily, by dint of itself, The End. granted, the way out of it was rough and steep. it was the worst thing I had been forced to do, worse than homelessness. but it was the only option. it was the only place that would take the damaged and ineffectual me that had no utility whatsoever, and force-feed me with the knowledge and skillset that gave me an eventual place on the outside that was off the street. it was a massive reset in my life, there was a before, and then there was the big DURING, and after. big tall demarcations between each state in my life at that point.
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18 Nov 2018, 1:45 am
Raleigh wrote:
Did you join the army?
very reluctantly, yes.
it was like jumping from the frying pan into the fire. it was the #1 thing on my list of things NEVER to do. but life had other plans.
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