Requiescat in pace...

[fajrdrako]

Today on thefridayfive: "Morbid Questions We All Think About" . Actually, I never think about this kind of thing - "Be unprepared" ought to be my motto. Do other people think about it? Really?

1. If you were to die today, what would your last words be?

"What, already?"

2. What would you want your epitaph to say?

"Beautiful, brilliant, brave." Epitaphs don't have to be true.

3. What song would you want played at your funeral?

I was about to say "I don't want a funeral", but I instantly thought of a song - "If Ever I Would Leave You", sung by John Barrowman.

4. In lieu of flowers, what should loved ones do in your honor?

Hey, I want flowers! Okay, okay, if not flowers... I'd like everyone to write a story or poem or song, or draw a picture, in my honour. Not about me. About something that's important to them.

5. What unfinished business would you wrap up?

The writing of a novel or two. But if I only have a day... I suppose I'd like to look at a sunset, or see the ocean.

Comments

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I still think that most if not all human behaviour is explicable ... if we had just a little more information. :-)

Maybe I'm just an incurable optimist on this topic. :-) :-)

If I even get a *few* of the novels bottled up in on paper, I would not feel quite so unhappy. [More on that some other time.]

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I still think that most if not all human behaviour is explicable ... if we had just a little more information. :-)

Maybe, but we never have enough information. Can anyone understand even one other person, let alone diverse strangers? I have difficulty understanding autism, even though I understand, to a point, the cause (neurological diversity) and the results (different perception). I have trouble understanding even myself, sometimes.

I believe that one of the ways we come to understand others is through reading novels, which is why they are important.