Over the past year, there has been a lot of insanity from a lot of people.
I hope that I’ve left a legacy and stories to entertain and make my loved ones proud, but I would have no desire to outlive my natural life. I intend to enjoy life as much as possible while I can, and then embrace the big nap when it’s my turn. I hear that there are attempts to expand the human lifespan to 150+ years, and all I can think is, BLECH who would want that. They say it whenever life is just a bit stressful, or problems are a bit too big, and every time it makes me feel better. I love this quote from my In-Laws: “One out of one dies.” I find memento mori to be a thing our current culture lacks, and through Death in Terry Pratchett’s books, and Death in the Sandman books, I think there are two very healthy ways of approaching the unavoidable specter of….well….Death. Considering the fact that mortality is inevitable, I find this a very comforting anthropomorphization of an idea that modern Western culture seems to have done its utmost to avoid. It makes Death someone that you would actually not mind meeting, scythe and all. I finally bit the bullet a few weeks ago, and read Mort.
I’ve known this whole time that i was missing out, but hadn’t remedied it. There are plenty of guides online that told me what to start with, but they all differed, and I was paralyzed by choice. This was largely due to the fact that he’d written so much, I just didn’t really know where to start. However, it pains me to say, that’s as much Terry Pratchett as I had ever read. It was witty, irreverent yet respectful, and thought provoking about the most serious topics, in the most fun way. I also truly loved the TV show version, which we all know is a dicey gamble at best, when it comes to transferring the written word to the silver screen.
Back around 1999, I read Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s collaboration, Good Omens, and subsequently loved it. It doesn’t take much poking around my interests to see that I’m an avid reader. Since I read War of the Worlds when I was in first grade, I’ve been a science fiction and fantasy fan.
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