// Death is brutal // 06.04.13
"Death is brutal and unfair and wrenching, but without it I don't think life would have much meaning. We need to appreciate each other while we're here, do our best to keep each other safe, but when one of us goes we can't let that destroy us.
My grandmother wouldn't have wanted my grandfather to have endured a half-decade of misery without her. And yet it's easier said than done to suggest he should have consoled himself with the time they had together rather than them being ripped apart. Or for him to have been philosophical enough to realise that without the possibility of death, their life and love would have had none of meaning it did.
Yeah, might struggle to make this stuff funny then." - Richard Herring
"Death is brutal and unfair and wrenching, but without it I don't think life would have much meaning. We need to appreciate each other while we're here, do our best to keep each other safe, but when one of us goes we can't let that destroy us.
My grandmother wouldn't have wanted my grandfather to have endured a half-decade of misery without her. And yet it's easier said than done to suggest he should have consoled himself with the time they had together rather than them being ripped apart. Or for him to have been philosophical enough to realise that without the possibility of death, their life and love would have had none of meaning it did.
Yeah, might struggle to make this stuff funny then." - Richard Herring
