For quite a while I have wanted to write about the words that so often are so often used around death and dying.. Some times these words make me want to laugh and sometimes they make me angry. As a 70 something woman I don't understand why we avoid the words "death, dying and dead". All these words are in the dictionary yet we seem to treat them like we used to treat bad or dirty words.
When someone is ill, terminally ill, we are so reluctant to use the word dying. It amazes me and even amuses me the lengths we go to to avoid using these words. When a person is that ill we like to use different words and phrases, like he/she is doing poorly, after a week or so we move from poor and poorly to failing. Now the dying person is failing, that always makes me think that the dying person isn't trying hard enough, if they would just try a little harder they wouldn't be failing, would they? Most of learned in about grade 4 or 5 that if we were failing we should work harder, study harder then we wouldn't be failing. After usually a length of time failing they "PASS". Apparently in the end everyone passes, no matter how long they were failing.
Even then people don't die apparently. After 'passing" they enter into rest, go to their reward, I guess the reward is for passing. There are a lot of ways that we have found to avoid using the words dead and death. I have found that the 70er I get the stranger this seems. I would like to get my great reward while I am still alive.............just saying.
Afternoon thoughts
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012...........4:18p.m.
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