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January 8, 2006
tired of living, curious about dying
I am often tired of living. I am also curious about dying. When my time comes, I wish to die fully conscious of every bit of life departing from me-fully conscious of what is approaching. Death in sleep or in a coma, no not this. I wish to die fully aware. Petrarch once said, “to those who enter, years seem infinite, to those who depart, nothing.” I don’t think I will live to a “ripe old age”. I think I belong to the children “kissed by death”-as Maeterlick would have it.
Josef Herman
Posted by amin at January 8, 2006 5:48 PM