Some Mental Junk Food

Alright, as promised, here's a rant I wrote some time in the last three years. Not really sure what was on my mind at the time. Btw, it's unedited and un-spellchecked. Enjoy.

Why Death Sucks

If when you are done dying you are dead, then what happens when you are done living? A friend of mine says that the question is easily answered. After you are done living you are dead. The end of both is the same. Death.

I hate death. People often fear the things they hate. That’s why they hate them. I fear death. Not all the time but sometimes more than others. I think it depends on the time of day.

Death is unfair in that it is always a taker and never a giver. It takes your life, it takes other’s lives, and it takes people away from you. So greedy death is. I think we should get rid of it. Make it a crime or something. From now on it is illegal to die no matter if it is your fault, anyone else’s fault, or no one’s fault at all. Those who are found dying, trying to die, or causing others to die shall be found guilty of a heinous felony and will be subject to due process of law and sentenced to capital punishment.

That makes no sense. If a state put a person to death for trying to kill their own person wouldn’t that mean that that state was breaking its own laws? It’s almost like suspending a truant child from school. What’s the point? Why give a criminal what he, she, or it wants?

Let’s do it. Everything is illegal. From murder to procreation to breathing. Even the mere act of being, of existing, is illegal. All crimes are punishable by death. What a great nation that would be, huh? Lots of death everywhere. Even law enforcers would be killing each other. It would be great for life to become one giant metaphorical, paradoxical, oxymoronic, symbol of death.

I hate it.

It’s fun.

And funny.

Down with death.

I think of all the ideas that man has come up with, death is the worst. It may have seemed like a good idea at the time; good way to keep down over population and a damn good punishment for crime. But, to make everybody have to bite the dust at some point? Not cool. Not cool at all. Bad idea. What about the all the people who don’t really want to die. Or what about the people who don’t have a convenient contingency plan like religion or insanity. We’re all screwed. Good job, man. Way to go. I hate it. So it goes.

P.S. Jennifer is in Florida until sometime in July. That makes me sad. Also, work is a lot more boring without her.