Get yourself a slow motion camera. The human body is fascinating when observed in such small slices of time.
Sounds like a really good idea. And cool source of pictures for future drawings:)
To be perfectly honest - I don't want any tombstone, and I signed papers to donated all organs, tissues for transplants - and if not needed - to medical academy as well. I don't see the point of keeping rotting shell if it can help someone.
be like Methuselah
Not sure I would love that. Long life sounds great, but the longest one - not so much. I think that 'God Emperor'(Dune series) make pretty good point about 'the longest of all life'.
There was a great book I read as part of my thesis, or maybe it was just a piece of reference material, but the title was poetic. "Okay with my decay". It's not really okay; it's just the actions of physics. It's kind of like an insurance company talking about unexpected major events, when really, nothing is unexpected, it is just the indifferent machinations of physics and the laws of the universe slowly applying entropy to everything, suddenly in dramatic and unexpected ways.
Life is long. Yet, we can look at contemporary society, roads, our fancy brains, and still think, while driving down a congested one lane road - we can transplant livers and hearts and kidneys, yet we can't forecast the population growth in an area to build infrastructure that will endure and scale for the future, instead; just doing the bare minimum; then disrupting everyone when its time to excise the malady.
I think that's the most poetically I've ever written about roadworks.
I think coming to terms with one's own mortality is very important. The fragility of life gives it meaning.(what a shit cliché, boring sentence, sorry about that)
Watching change, slow decay, or if you prefer, a return to nature, need not fill you with fear or discomfort. I don't mind indifference if physics or nature. If anything - I see them somehow comforting, because apply to everybody, doesn't matter how many antioxidants you gonna eat.
Escaping death is futile but at the same time, cheating it a little from time to time - gives us a lot of satisfaction.
What I am trying to say is that at each stage of our lives, the offer is different. But that does not mean that we should accept the conditions as they are. We should negotiate and argue the best terms for ourselves.
Life is short. But it can be cruellest to us when we have time on our hands that we cannot or do not want to use at the moment - like standing in traffic jam. You can compose a poem in your head, think a little longer about a good quote for an epitaph, choose the prettiest tree growing by the roadside.
Or you can sink into deep despair because people have once again failed to do their job properly :)
"I wonder if that tree and the airbag would make a comfy bed"
:D
All dark jokes aside, I am somewhere between a cynic, nihilist, but am also stupidly stoic. Fundamentally, the nature of the universe and the physical laws that govern it, fascinate me as well.
I love the notion that we're all here because of chaos, and trying to make sense of it is a fruitless endeavour, therefore we should just create thought provoking stuff.
I've learn to be stoic, but I am definitely like this by nature:) Just boiling inside now:)
I like that to. But! I like organizing stuff. Chaos doesn't like that, so we are fighting constantly :D