Who you calling boring?
Grade A Asshole?
Yeah- probably right on both accounts. But a "Republican" that's the first time that one has been pulled out. I actually have a McGovern 1972 for presidentposter in my classroom- top that!
Thinking things over it's probably the lack of wit that I find most annoying in the YGD comment.
Base jumping sounds tough.
I'd like to make it to the Sushi fest but the schedule just hasn't let it happen. But if it did, I'd definitely DINE.
I've come to realize that death is a process. It's something we all have to do but (except in cases of instant death) it doesn't just "happen" to us rather it's our final act of LIFE. We are alive through that process. I held my grandma as she slowed her breathing over a three hour period with a grin on her face, til she took her last breath. She went through the process with grace; didn't try to fight it.
I also like "it's a good day to die" and the meaning of that is not so obvious. Took me a long time to see another side of that one, having read many quotes from native americans tales of going into battle. I used to think it was sick and suicidal but they didn't really want to die.
Don't take every thing to your heart. These 'yer gonna die' people are just fooling around. This forum would turn into a boring ass place if every little thing that offends someone is taken out.
And some of my friends did die climbing. But the truth is...
yer gonna die!
and maggots are waitin!
Maggots are waitin. Photo by Adam Burch
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so get out and do all the sh#t you want to do in your life as soon as possible, cuz life is not forever!
Sunset after finishing raps down from South Howser
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Fk YEA!
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Alaska
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Whitney and Russell from Cleaver peak
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Climbing Doodad
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Even rappells are scenic!
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Cute goats around Enchantment Lakes
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Hamik leading out on pitch 8
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Getting down from Snowpatch
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Beautiful view of Minarets. Route goes up the face of the highest pointy peak
call the waaambulance. Everyone dies, I just hope I die from something other than slow illness. Dying from climbing is fine by me, but being eaten by a shark while surfing sounds even better.
we don't even know what dying means, so why fear something that might be awesome? Or it might be nothing, or it might be awful. We don't have a clue.
Until we each realize that our individual death is our illusion we will have talks like this and think we are victims of our friend's death and express some pain/hurt or anger. Well, I can say Cosmic.
I am reminded of a song by Queen but the words don't persist. For one death --one thought, move on.
I think that dealing with death using a sense of humor (as much as is possible, at any particular time) is more healthy than dealing with it using a head-in-the-sand religion.
I hope that after I pass away, with time the people that knew me and cared about me will smile when they remember me, and find something about that memory to laugh about.
That's the plan. I sure as heck won't survive my own life!
I have lost folks, including a few in the scuba diving world. I don't take that phrase in a dark way. It's a warning about what you are doing, heck, I can die slipping in my shower. It is also a statement about the inevitable, that it will happen. When, how, why... You can control only so much. I'll do my best on keeping myself and those around me safe and the rest... Well, it is what it is.
Let us know!