Do people take comfort in TPs personification of DEATH?
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I've never been affraid of dying, I'm more affraid of losing people dear to me... And therefore I really like Sir Terry's idea of death - that everyone gets the "afterlife" he/she believes in. Because that's there in our everyday life, isn't it? Everyone believes in different things, and it wouldn't be fair if only group of believers'd get what they like and the others just follow...
I have taken some solace from the Death character in the books.
Then again I am not religious and tend to be a bit irreverant about things. When my daughter lost her beloved Dad in her teens it was so sad, so wrong.... but we both know her Dad would had named Death as his fave character in DW and in some strange and weird sense its better to think of him walking off with him than any of the other claptrap some people might like to put forward about that moment.
Some of the deaths in my family still wound me but strangely I don't feel like I ever lost my mother or father... they somehow seem to be near.
Like I said... I am not religious or airy fairy about stuff.... your body lives, it dies... but that feeling of them being "around" has never gone away. I have some very religious sisters and brothers too and THEY feel it as well (not all of them ... just some).
Who knows.
Then again I am not religious and tend to be a bit irreverant about things. When my daughter lost her beloved Dad in her teens it was so sad, so wrong.... but we both know her Dad would had named Death as his fave character in DW and in some strange and weird sense its better to think of him walking off with him than any of the other claptrap some people might like to put forward about that moment.
Some of the deaths in my family still wound me but strangely I don't feel like I ever lost my mother or father... they somehow seem to be near.
Like I said... I am not religious or airy fairy about stuff.... your body lives, it dies... but that feeling of them being "around" has never gone away. I have some very religious sisters and brothers too and THEY feel it as well (not all of them ... just some).
Who knows.
I take a lot of comfort from the Death of the discworld. I remember that after my grandmother and uncle died respectively I returned to the dw books like old friends and they helped me recover. I'm an atheist, and I used to be really afraid of how death would be, but now I sort of don't bother thinking about it.
if there was a real persona for death in this world, I'd like to think he'd be like the dw Death and treat people with kindness.
if there was a real persona for death in this world, I'd like to think he'd be like the dw Death and treat people with kindness.
