"Don’t Be Dead, Dude" (a Pop-Culture Discussion of Dying)
If you are completely zen in your yogic comfort with death, or, like Shirley MacLaine, think you have a lot more lives to live... well, this whole topic will seem lovely, and Bill's concern (or was it Ted's?) over his friend's potential death would seem silly, as death would simply be this beautiful passing over to a new reality.
If you are like most of the rest of us, however, it's a little easier to make a few jokes and reference film and TV to offset the discomfort of talking about dying.
When it comes down to it, death IS the great equalizer, and we ARE all going to meet that someday, so it is a little bizarre that we just avoid the discussion altogether. I, for one, don't relish the idea of embalming and burial - maybe too many Twilight Zone episodes watching people buried alive trying to escape prison... In the end, I really just don't see a lot of point in the preservation of a body post-mortum (I learn my language from CSI).
I think I'm a cremation girl when it comes down to it. I don't want to be stuck in an urn like Gaylord Focker's grandmother-in-law or naturally buried in a shroud like Nate. I'm thinking ashes tilled into a nice garden in the mountains instead...
-Heather... off to watch some Law and Order: SVU...




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