Re:The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver
by Retra on Saturday August 08, 2015 @09:41PM
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What are you implying? That I'm not "really living my life" because I don't try to convince myself death is better if I was having fun just before it happened?
You really think a chainsaw juggler is going to have more fun getting mutilated by a chainsaw than dying in their sleep? Or that drowning is somehow not unbearably frightening just because you like water? Have you never heard of post traumatic stress? When you almost die doing something, it can make you not like it anymore. So why would you assume dying doing something you love isn't actually a good way to die losing the thing you love most?
Because you don't want to believe it.
For people like that, dying doing what they loved really does make it better. They lived their lives, following their own choices. And those lives do end early sometimes. But all lives end. Sitting behind a desk for 40 years then cheering at how long you lived... that sounds like the tragedy to me.