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Captain...or Skully

climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 1, 2014 - 09:14pm PT
It's inevitable....All I ever hear is Denial. I've been close a couple times. Several folk close to me have chosen such a thing. Let's discuss the threshold from which there is no return. Or not.
Surprise me.....this board often does that.
MisterE

Gym climber
Bishop, CA
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:17pm PT
Death is my friend - I welcome it willingly but not through my own hand. Ever.

Dylan Thomas put it well:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:20pm PT
Fear of not seeing your family again and missing out on fun...
Captain...or Skully

climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2014 - 09:27pm PT
Or do you at all?
That's another question altogether, is it not? or is it?
Talk is cheap.....Whiskey will cost ya.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:28pm PT
Cosmic...Fear not....There's always the Zombie after-life..Come to my door i blow your head off...rj
MisterE

Gym climber
Bishop, CA
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:39pm PT
^^That's why if I wasn't so damn satisfied with my life, I would totally be a haunter!

;)
Gorgeous George

Trad climber
Los Angeles, California
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:41pm PT
I'm not sure they have sex in heaven.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:42pm PT
I'm not sure they have sex in heaven.

I could live with that as long as they don't have dentists.
rottingjohnny

Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:45pm PT
Raawwk..Cosmy want some cosmotology..? Raawwwk...
Captain...or Skully

climber
in the oil patch...Fricken Bakken, that's where
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2014 - 09:48pm PT
Life hurts, Mr. Ron. We know naught else.
MisterE

Gym climber
Bishop, CA
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:54pm PT
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Studly

Trad climber
WA
Oct 1, 2014 - 09:58pm PT
Fear death, why?

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet : On Death

Than Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of Death."

And he said:

You would know the secret of death.

But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?

The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;

And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Is the sheered not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?

Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And what is to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
rick sumner

Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:01pm PT
There will be a period of darkness, or one will see the light , or transition quickly or slowly, or none of the above. Regardless ,there has never been anyone expressing regret after completing their life journey. After witnessing the last breaths of a number of loved ones I cant see fearing the result, just the process.
MisterE

Gym climber
Bishop, CA
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:04pm PT
Regardless ,there has never been anyone expressing regret after completing their life journey.

Sorry to disagree Rick - but Hitler may have some afterlife regrets...if the universe is just.

Which it may not be...so you may be right.
ruppell

climber
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:24pm PT
And the mercy seat is glowing
And I think my head is smoking
And in a way I'm hopin'
to be done with all these looks of disbelief.
A life for a life
And a truth for a truth
And I've got nothin' left to loose.
And I'm not afraid to die

And the mercy seat is smoking
And I think my head is melting
And in a way that's helpin'
to be done with all this twistin' of the truth
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And any way I told the truth
But I'm afraid I told a lie.




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nah000

climber
canuckistan
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:39pm PT
death, itself... not the main issue...

continuing to live while having lost major parts of my own autonomy... that is what i fear...

which, if i'm truly not afraid of death, is pretty absurd... haha...

thanks for the question...
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:42pm PT
Denial is a river in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, and points south, though it runs to the north.

The Ganges is a charnel house in India.

Denali is a mountain in Alaska and has killed more than a few climbers.

A recent study found that women who carry a little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it.

It's how Gibran met his maker, according to Urban Legend, who lives in a van parked down by the East River in NYC.
hossjulia

Trad climber
Carson City, NV
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:50pm PT
I don't. I fear getting too old and crippled to finish like I want. Death would be preferable.
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:53pm PT
The problem I have with Death is that it is so imposing.
WBraun

climber
Oct 1, 2014 - 10:59pm PT
Death is God and is absolute.

But the soul, the real you, never dies and transmigrates to wherever your consciousness at the time of your last breath is at ......
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