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When Dying Wishes Cause Pain to the Living
How responsible are you for obeying when you’ll have to live with consequences?
I Hate Myself: Depression and Low Self-Esteem Aren’t Always Linked
You’d think getting rid of one would take care of the other, but no.
My Dad Won’t Move
We can choose where we’ll be buried. Why not choose where we draw our last breath?
Medium.com Writing Contest
The competition is fierce for thousands of dollars in prizes. This is what I submitted.
Ozzie
Ozzie and Bob in 2012 (photo by me) Now the story of the dog my ex-husband and I owned together for 18 months before he (the ex) ended our marriage. When Bob and I first got Ozzie (Sept. 2011) he was about three years old and full of puppyish energy. One day Ozzie and...
U.S. Gets Worse (Over Many Decades) Before Getting Better
In his Medium.com story Ninety Thousand Dead and Counting, Umair Haque points out that Americans don't seem to care how many Americans are dying of COVID-19. He writes that other countries tend to keep careful watch of how many deaths their governments cause, whether...
Getting Killed by a White Supremacist
After Gilroy and El Paso and Dayton, it has sunk in at a new level for me that I could die any day. That has always been true, of course, but the frequency of the last three terrorist acts make it immediate for me. White men slaughtering people in public places has...
Against No-Kill Animal Shelters
Sabine Heinlein's essay, The Cruelty of Kindness, poses the question of whether no-kill animal shelters have gone too far in saving every life. It comes down to the question of whether any kind of life, no matter how painful, is better than death. Maybe I'm all alone...
Prince Is Dead
According to Vox's Why we grieve artists we've never met, people can mourn and weep over people they never personally knew for this reason, "We don't cry because we knew them. We cry because they helped us know ourselves." Writer Caroline Framke reproduces this tweet...
This Is What I Have to Say about the Current State of Regular American Mass Shootings
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My Skull Ring
This is a photo of my hand wearing my current favorite ring. I love this ring because I find the idea of death comforting. For me, life is busy, loud, often overwhelming and too often painful. Life is full of people moving quickly and too many things to do and not...
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Last night I watched one of Robin Williams' last movies: The Angriest Man in Brooklyn. I don't know when he finished the movie, but it was released in May 2014 and came out on video-on-demand (VOD) in July 2014, weeks before Williams' suicide. I can only find bad...
How Long Before They Notice You’re Dead?
(Again, I'm blogging on an app, so if the text goes wonky in spots. Sorry.) In the article How to Avoid Dying Alone With No One To Claim Your Body, Jezebel's Tracy Moore describes the increasing problem of dead bodies with no one to claim them and people whose death...
What Do They Do if You’re in a Coma?
No one who's in perfectly good health ever thinks they need to worry about ending up in the hospital tomorrow, but things happen. I'm sure you can think of people who were fine one day and then, in a moment, it all changed. They didn't think they needed to make known...