tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231979855831826598.post3310084340256735580..comments2023-08-09T06:33:27.170-07:00Comments on Pallimed: Arts and Humanities: You're Going to DieChristian Sinclairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14685043408496367587noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231979855831826598.post-57756904364530384802009-02-24T14:09:00.000-08:002009-02-24T14:09:00.000-08:00Hi, Christian!Forgive my very late notice of this ...Hi, Christian!<BR/>Forgive my very late notice of this post...I came to it through Jessica's blog just today and fell in love with the video, so, of course, I followed her links in reference to it. I also looked it up on YouTube and (only) scanned through the many comments, per your post. I notice that no one, so far, has left any comments on your post about it so I thought I'd be the first, since, after having commented on it over at Jessica's and lived it with for something over an hour, I have more to say on why I so enjoy this video.<BR/>In my journey through my reactions to my mother's death the hardest circumstance has been that, up to the point of seeing this video, all the stories I've read, heard and recalled have been non-"extinctionist". No surprise, there; especially since I have a strong thread of non-"extinction" running through me, which I understand is hard wired into our species. The largest of my personal challenges, though, in handling my mother's death has been her obvious extinction and the finality of death. It's the challenge that stops me in my tracks, day after day, hour after hour. This video is the only Death Story I've come across, so far, that addresses this challenge. For reasons I don't clearly understand, as I watch and think about this video, which says nothing to which I haven't been introduced, nothing I haven't contemplated, I'm finding it incrementally easier to stand in the shadow of death, hers, mine, ours. Maybe this is because I'm familiar with many more "afterlife" stories than I can use and all of them attempt to assuage or eliminate the "sting" of death, rather than allow me to experience it until I can live with it. Maybe what I've been needing is a Death Story such as this that lets me sit with it, talk to it and lick my wounds, even as it threatens me with yet more deaths, including my own.<BR/>I'm sure there are many who would balk at the possibility of introducing this to someone they know who is grieving a recent death but my experience tells me that some of us, maybe more than seems obvious, would benefit from this Death Story, especially while in the fresh throes of grief.<BR/>Also, sidebar here, I finally got around, today, to doing something I've been meaning to do for awhile: Add Pallimed's blogs to my links list and recommend them. The write-up is <A HREF="http://themomandmejournalsdotnet.net/index.html#pallimed" REL="nofollow">here</A>, in case you want to check it. I thank you and your contributors for these sites, and for Palliative Care Grand Rounds. Good stuff. --GailGail Raehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10429291136763615708noreply@blogger.com