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Life an death

 
 
xxsarahxx
17:51 / 05.07.04
i was just wondering about people's views on how and what its like to die.
 
 
Olulabelle
20:33 / 05.07.04
Hey! Dad! *Presses fingers on temples.* Come in Dad!

What's it like then? Spill the beans. Relieve the world of its wondering, once and for all. Tell us everything!
 
 
■
22:20 / 05.07.04
none
 
 
■
22:21 / 05.07.04
Damn. I forgot it did that none thing. I was hoping to post that and then say "The above is my answer to your question" or somesuch smartarsery.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:40 / 05.07.04
Painful I should think.
 
 
■
22:47 / 05.07.04
Ah, I took it as being dead. Well, if xxxsarahxxx (is that pronounced with one retch or two?) wants to know about how dying feels, I think a little more definition is required. I feel some Dorothy Parker coming on...
 
 
Olulabelle
22:48 / 05.07.04
Pick up knife.
Place knife to throat.
Cut.

Ah, bollocks. Sorry, wrong message board.
 
 
Papess
22:55 / 05.07.04
Doesn't it depend on how one dies, as to how it might feel when does? Or, is the question more about what being dead is like?

Well, I was dead. Now I am undead. I have to say that being dead was a lot like being alive, except a lot quieter.
 
 
Ganesh
22:55 / 05.07.04
I imagine one has a brief opportunity to say goodbye to weeping/smiling people, and is then summoned toward a great white doorway which opens to reveal Davina, who leads one past baying crowds and paparazzi, to ask a series of just-off-the-mark questions and show a slightly-cheesy montage of one's 'best bits'.
 
 
Smoothly
22:56 / 05.07.04
Like this.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:07 / 05.07.04
Death is like Big Brother? So we're all going to hell?
 
 
Olulabelle
23:10 / 05.07.04
Or possibly Big Brother is Hell and therefore we're all already dead.
 
 
w1rebaby
23:13 / 05.07.04
the physical impossibility of death blah blah

I reckon dying is like being exhibited in the Saatchi gallery.
 
 
Ganesh
23:16 / 05.07.04
That's physically impossible, Fridge. In my mind, anyway.
 
 
Charlie's Horse
02:46 / 06.07.04

My Mum always told me it's like that strange fellow who smokes cigarettes while insisting that he's 'not a smoker,' but forever.

Or at least, longer. Mum was never too specific.
 
  
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