The Return of Mister Dead

[ornoth]

Death is guaranteed. There are no exceptions. Given that, you’d think it’d be something we’d run into from time to time. Buddhists often seek out the experience of being with a corpse, to fully appreciate the idea that we, like everything else, are impermanent. But in nearly half a century, I’ve never in my life seen a dead human body. Have you? Bodies covered by sheets don’t count.

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Comments

[iniren.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a big difference between just "seeing" a corpse, and "Being with", as you say in your post. People are always surprised when I say that I've never really been near death at all my whole life (very small family, both grandmothers still alive, grandfathers gone before I was born).

But I recently had a very intimate experience with the death of a beloved pet - Kuzia / Pookie the cat. And I actually did sit *with* him for a while soon after he died. And it definitely was a unique experience.