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nevahpopsoff
Boulder climber
the woods
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Dec 21, 2010 - 10:31pm PT
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"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
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Sir loin of leisure...
Trad climber
I'm from Idaho..bitch
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Dec 21, 2010 - 10:33pm PT
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I'd like to be thrown into a wood chipper..
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Dec 21, 2010 - 10:34pm PT
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die with your boots on.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Dec 21, 2010 - 11:28pm PT
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I'd like to be thrown into a wood chipper..
Life's already too much of a grind.....
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 22, 2010 - 01:30am PT
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I'd like to be thrown into a wood chipper..
You're definitely lying ....
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 22, 2010 - 03:28am PT
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Just thought I'd lighten up the holiday cheer and share with you all some of my poetic experiences with death...
You walk into a bedroom with an elderly lady laying back on her bed propped up on a stack of pillows, her eyeballs bulging out of her head fixed on yours like a deer in headlights. Her hands reach out and vicely clamp onto your forearms while she quietly pushes out her last few words through the fluid in her lungs that she is drowning in, "Help me, please." In the blink of your eyes she loses her muscle tone and falls back onto the bed, her face is an ashen gray, the tip of her nose and ear lobes a dark blue, her mouth is agape and her pupils are fixed in a blank stare. Your resuscitation efforts are futile yet this isn't what lingers, only the thought of where her soul is beginning its eternity.
At a wee hour in the morning you walk into a home to find a Grandmother lying face down in a heap of vomitus on a carpeted floor at the foot of her favorite rocking chair, her legs twisted unnaturally beneath her. Firefighters, are there with you to help turn the lady onto her back. You note a strapping elderly gentleman towering in the hallway to your right wearing slacks, a white tshirt and suspenders. He must stand at least six foot four with his Grandson, nearly the same height, clinging to his side. Their eyes never deviating from the lifeless loved one on the floor.
After another prolonged resuscitation effort the time comes to turn and walk towards the family and inform them that you did everything you could but she did not respond and that you are sorry. You watch this massive man drop to his knees where he stands, his face buries in his hands and he begins to fitfully sob like a child, his whole body shaking beneath him. His Grandson lays over his shoulders, wrapping his lanky arms around his Grandfather. You stand there silently until you yourself have to excuse yourself out of the house so you too can wipe the tears off of your face.
Morbid experiences or inappropriate you might say, or dream up ethereal places and ways to die you may comfort yourself with...this is as good as it gets unless you believe and accept the grace of God and be assured that when you die you'll spend eternity in heaven.
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edejom
Boulder climber
Butte, America
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Dec 22, 2010 - 03:33am PT
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"Death has a dignity all of its own"--Johnny Got His Gun (1971 anti-war movie about war)
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krahmes
Social climber
Stumptown
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Dec 22, 2010 - 04:25am PT
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I imagine WB seen more of than anyone, so with respect I'll tell you the best death I’ve seen which was the one my great uncle Fred had. Uncle Fred was 84, he’d outlived his wife Elsie, he was awesome with a lathe, and he had caused great family turmoil when he remarried at 80 to a widow of 75, he had a great garden and he was ordinary and forgettable in every way. My family had fished a lake on opening day since the 1930’s called East Lake in central Oregon. So we hauled Uncle Fred up to the lake in early June of 1977. Anyway we woke up at 4 am, geared up, motored across the lake and the fishing was lousy, but Uncle Fred caught a fish and missed a bunch of strikes. We came back in at around 8 or 9 am. I remember that uncle Fred stumbled as he walked up the shoreline and I went to help him to his feet and said, “Are you ok Uncle Fred?” He looked me in the eye and his iris had that look you catch sometimes when you’re on acid and the morning alpenglow alpine clouds went that way too and the world receded for lack of a better term, and he mumbled that he was ok. I was 14 and 4 years away from any dabbling with psychedelics. Anyway we got back to cabin ate breakfast and took the afternoon nap in preparation for the evening bite. After noon my Dad shook me awake saying that Uncle Fred was dead, and given that I was a Boy Scout, and looking back on it that my Dad was probably slightly sauced, he wanted me to try mouth to mouth. Which I did to no avail. It freaked me out at the time and caused more family turmoil, but I think about it all the time and can’t get over that it was the greatest way to go.
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edejom
Boulder climber
Butte, America
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Dec 22, 2010 - 04:31am PT
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If you're gonna go, which you WILL, then hike your own withered and dying ass into the mountains and expose yourself to the elements--it won't take long and will be honorable...
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Broken
climber
Texas
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Dec 22, 2010 - 10:07am PT
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DMT,
What do you make of Achilles' Choice?
-V
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Dec 22, 2010 - 10:08am PT
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I want to die from an erection lasting over four hours. Seek immediate medical attention only to find the hottest nurse in skimpy clothing. After the fifth hour he passed. Lack of blood to brain and heart. And a dic that really hurt.
Most likely cancer which is no fun, so I'm ordering some viagra. Bob looks like a cool dude.
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 22, 2010 - 02:33pm PT
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And what if that "greatest way to go" was into an eternal hell? It just makes more sense to take the chance and commit to Salvation than not to. If it (God) turns out to be a hoax then you'll never know it for you'll be worm food. BUT, if it (God) is True then you'll be thankful you made the right decision.
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wack-N-dangle
Gym climber
the ground up
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Dec 22, 2010 - 02:40pm PT
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Thanks illusion, I think I'm covered.
p.s. I think that it is really cool that you found your higher calling and turned your life around. Also, expressing that, instead of threatening eternal damnation seems like a nicer way to share your experience. I guess all I'm saying is that your beliefs are not the only good ones out there.
My 2 cents more: old age after a life well lived
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 22, 2010 - 02:42pm PT
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Oh, and that "hard-on lasting longer than four hours" is a form of priapism which is a very painful condition. That scantily clad nurse would more than likely be the last thing on your mind as she would make preparations for the doctor to insert a hypodermic needle into your penis to withdraw the excess blood that's causing your misery.
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 22, 2010 - 03:12pm PT
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Ah, the misconception that my life has somehow "turned around." I, as you, are still living in this world experiencing the peaks and valleys of life. I am just "saved" from eternal misery after I leave this earth, have a sincere concern for others condition, and give credit to God for my life as opposed to myself. This is the best sales pitch that I can come up with. God says it himself the best: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
And, sorry, there's no other "ways" out there: "Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, he truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." - John 14:6. There can only be one Truth.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Dec 22, 2010 - 03:21pm PT
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There can only be one Truth.
Ahh, but which one is it? Yours is yours so it obviously must be true and good for everyone else also.
The Hindus and Buddhists and Taoists and Sikhs and Muslims can't possibly be right, they just haven't read the right book. Because our book is TRUE and all their books are wrong, so how can you argue with truth?
I believe it so therefore it's true, which makes what everyone else believes false, the end, amen.
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 22, 2010 - 03:32pm PT
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Ok Jeremy, here's a bit more "logic"...
The problem I am facing with folks is that willful unbelief will not listen to reason. Why should they, if they can create a pseudo-reality that is tailor-made to satisfy their itching ears? I know that this sounds strange, but that is the world in which we live. The drug culture is a booming industry because it specializes in transporting people into a fantasy world that offers a temporary escape from aching reality of emptiness and the horrifying suspicion that judgment is real (John 16:8, Romans 2:14-16). It's like a person who chooses to stay in the temporary comfort of their stateroom on the Titanic, rather than the available seat on the lifeboat. Furthermore, that person becomes greatly offended when you plead with them to escape to safety. But there is another dimension here with which we must battle: unbelief is
supernatural. No one should be able to logically withstand all the evidence of the empty tomb of our risen Savior, the hundreds of fulfilled prophecies, the unmatched miracles of our Lord, His historical impact that punctuated our B.C./A.D. world by His unequaled life, and the transformed lives that bear witness to His saving power. There is no longer room for
reasonable doubt that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. But people do. To reject such compelling evidence is not natural. It is the supernaturally imposed Satanic influence that blinds unbelievers to the reality of Christ, prompting them to reject the salvation that God offers freely at heaven's ultimate expense. That is the reality beneath the surface. 2 Corinthians 4:4 applies.
And so we preach, persuading as many as who will yet enter into our Savior's lifeboat...
and yet there is room. This is our supreme calling. This is our Savior's command.
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illusiondweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 22, 2010 - 04:51pm PT
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Jobless, suffering from the affects of a twenty two year old daughter's addiction to opiates, alcoholism in the family and an addict myself...yeah, I'm immune.
Wescrist, You must have missed it the first time so I'll post it again..
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"Ah, the misconception that my life has somehow "turned around." I, as you, are still living in this world experiencing the peaks and valleys of life. I am just "saved" from eternal misery after I leave this earth, have a sincere concern for others condition, and give credit to God for my life as opposed to myself. This is the best sales pitch that I can come up with. God says it himself the best: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16"
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malabarista
Trad climber
PA, then AZ, then CO, Now CA, soon OR
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Dec 22, 2010 - 05:01pm PT
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incomplete and unfulfilled as I am every day as soon as i start to think "i am" and am confronted by history and the long road into the future
let death come in an unthinking moment, falling asleep on a calm winter day
every peak leads to a new valley
every success is hollow and leads us back to the same points of pain
eventually success and failure feel the same
death becomes something to welcome instead of fear again
like an autum leaf falling off the tree
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wack-N-dangle
Gym climber
the ground up
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Dec 22, 2010 - 05:06pm PT
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Illusion...
I feel a little guilty about stoking the coals, but I wonder if you see the irony of your avatar (troll?). Also, getting back on topic, "Best way to die", take your shtick to Afghanistan. I advise against it though.
Fatty, I think you're good. You should be sitting comfortably in the after life. Jesus saves, but Moses invests.
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