What Should I Blog About? “Death,“ I Answered.

A couple of weeks ago Wanda and I were visiting our son Aaron, daughter-in-law Ashley and our granddaughter, Ophelia. As we sat in their living room watching Ophelia play, Ashley asked, “What should I blog about?”

With hardly a moment’s hesitation, a topic popped into my head. “Death,” I said.

I’m not sure why that notion leaped to the top of the stack of all the potential blogging subjects I might suggest. I guess it is a topic that can rivet people’s attention. And I have to give Ashley credit. She was up to the challenge. Here’s what she wrote:

ashley: is there something i should blog about?

aryln: death.

so here it is.  it freaks my freak.  for many, many years, i was fine with the idea of dying.  i would go to heaven and everything would be fine.  for the past six months, the idea gives me great anxiety.  there are two reasons:

1) burial.  i know my body will no longer be mine, but while i'm still kickin' it here on earth, the idea of it being a) burned to ashes or b) locked in a coffin, is horrible.  what if i'm stung by some non-existent bug that paralyzes me for three days and am buried/burned alive??  we owe this irrational fear to 'lost.'

2) ophelia.  i can't begin to understand how it all works, but i think i'd be okay after i'm gone because i probably wouldn't know what i was missing.  ophelia on the other hand would have to live without a mother.  i tear up right now just thinking of it. and that is my post on death.

Thanks, Ashley, for some honest reflections on death.

Now, I’ve decided I should take up my own challenge. I want to do a series of posts on death. It is something I have thought about a lot—not just my own eventual death, but about the meaning and purpose death might have. That’s one thing I plan to write about in coming days.

Comments

[Ashley]

Wow, I didn't expect this! I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the subject in the coming days.