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I Have Been Thinking About Death

I've been thinking about death lately. Not my own, in general. I'm in a certain situation where It's not really an avoidable thought.
These last days what annoyed me, no, better said enrages me the most is how you're supposed to condense the meaning of a person's life in a few lines. How do you distill the years of information and emotional charge into a few words and feel that you made the right choice? Is it possible to capture their essence into such little information or into a poetical cliche? It's a question eroding at the base of my skull and I try to look away, do something fun, something stupid, anything that can move me away from the sad neighborhood that question lives in but it finds me in seconds and it's crushing my will. I wish it was about me it would be so easy: he was a boring guy and now he's dead.
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elVato · 46-50, M
death is awkward for everybody. it's something we're not supposed to think or talk about anymore, at least in our commercialized shallow society (death isn't good for ratings or sales, so let's not think about it). Your probably best off remembering a few good times and putting them into words if you're asked to say something. it doesn't do the person justice, but what else can you do? At least, for once, the irish get one thing right and take situations like this and turn them into a party. Laughter speeds up the healing process in some ways.
kayoshin · 36-40, M
True, but you forgot one detail set in stone, or maybe it's not in your culture, in mine there's some sort of short "resume" you write on the cross or stone that just doesn't feel like something i can just add lib there. It might very well be the last thing I get to do for this person and it feels like there is no right way to do it.
elVato · 46-50, M
@kayoshin: that's a heavy burden if it's solely up to you to write that.
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kayoshin · 36-40, M
It is up to me, which brings me to the original post's feelings. It's not going to be a fun weekend.
elVato · 46-50, M
@kayoshin: 🍺
- it may help.
kayoshin · 36-40, M
Thank you! The thought is apreciated! :)