a bit offensive probably, but oh well.
I know this may seem heartless, but I find it much more saddening (personally) the older someone is when they die. This tends to be the opposite of what I perceive to be the consensus... in which an elderly person’s death is seen as noble and "well, they lived a good long life" but when a newborn infant dies it is seen as some horrible sad thing. I don't intend to belittle the grief that anyone feels, nor would I suggest that that I would not feel sadness if I were to have a newborn shield of my own perish, but I guess this is more related to what I feel is important to me. In some aspects, I see a newborn as this sort of cute, cuddly empty book. There are thousands, maybe millions of pages, byte there is nothing on these pages. I know that there is potential, but there is an infinite amount of potential for pretty much anything. Someone who is/has been alive for some time, however, is this crazed version of a book set up in a varying degrees of haphazardness with stories, ideas, thoughts, memories, feelings, smells, taste and sounds. I find it sad that there is an end to a life like this, an end that takes with it a treasure trove of knowledge and thoughts that were never shared with anyone, or if they were, that person won't share them. I know this is inevitable, but it still saddens me. I wish that there were some way for these things to be saved... I know that for all practical matters it would be pretty much unworkable... as even if these things were saved, but good would it do. It could take someone a long time to pick through someone else's lifetime memories looking for the good/etc parts of it... just as it is silly to hoard thousands of movies, more than on person could ever watch, but newborn babies have nothing in their books. Even young children have just the beginnings of writings. I think I know that sorrow and such for the death of a close family member comes from a lot of things, and I don't want to seem like I am trying to lessen any of them. I just find it incredibly amazing how much each person has in their heads and it kind of pisses me off that they just die and with their death their life's book is destroyed. .
I mean, not that they would have more than a few good ideas, but of all the things that our society has accomplished, all of our physical, emotional , intellectual and spiritual advancements that we can touch and measure, there is such a myriad of things that billions of people had thought but kept secret that died when they died.
I mean, not that they would have more than a few good ideas, but of all the things that our society has accomplished, all of our physical, emotional , intellectual and spiritual advancements that we can touch and measure, there is such a myriad of things that billions of people had thought but kept secret that died when they died.