Clipmarks | Sheroug's 'death' clips

Terror and Horror

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:15:26 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Terror and horror, from Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.

Ann Radcliffe wrote: "Terror and horror are so far opposite, that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life; the other contracts, freezes, and nearly annihilates them."

Or, in Devendra Varma's words, "The difference between Terror and Horror is the difference … between the smell of death and stumbling against a corpse."

Life's but a walking shadow

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:21:46 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: www.alionline.net

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

--William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5)

I Shall Meet Him With Courgage

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:55:35 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: www.alionline.net

I joyfully hasten to meet Death. If he comes before I have had the opportunity of developing all my artistic powers, then, notwithstanding my cruel fate, he will come too early for me, and I should wish for him at a more distant period; but even then I shall be content, for his advent will release me from a state of endless suffering. Come when he may, I shall meet him with courage. Farewell!

--Beethoven

Death. What's so Funny?

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:10:28 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: library.thinkquest.org

Why do we laugh at and euphemize about death?

You're going to die.

Sorry to be the bearer of sad tidings, but it's true

No matter how fast you run, how high you climb, no matter how rich or powerful you are, no matter if you're encrusted with honors as a pier with mussels, no matter how much of the acedemic alphabet you can string behind your name, you're going to cark it. Kick the bubket. Shuffle off this mortal coil.

If we didnt die, if we didn't have to face that endless vista of non-existance, we wouldn't have, woundn't need, a sense of humor. The issues simply wouldn't arise.

Humans are dignified by doom, defined by an awareness of mortality.

no other creature has this essential tragic awareness

In a catch that makes Catch 22 look reasonable, His Majesty has cursed the entire universe with the second law of Thermodynamics, which means that the whole shebang comes to a grinding halt

we cry out in rage, in horror, in despair

Or we laugh

reacting to the raw deal of our brief existance

Tags: death, laughter

Into the Woods

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:41:38 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: www.cedarlane.org

Into the Woods

, Christopher Johnson McCandless, a young man from a well-to-do family in the Northern Virginia suburb of Annandale, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley

Over one hundred and fifty years ago, another notable young man set out on a journey of self-discovery and independence. He walked away from the comfortable surroundings of his home, his family, and his friends, intending to live a solitary and Spartan life in a rough hewn shack he had built beside a pond.

Henry David Thoreau made two decisions. First, that he was going to become a poet,

and secondly, that if he was going to be a poet he should live a life style appropriate to this vocation

What can be discerned from the lives of these two young men?

Both who go "into the wild" on a journey of self-discovery and illumination

What ultimately led to the death of one and the spiritual rebirth of the other?

one find only isolation and increasingly narrow thinking

the other found

solitude

A Death in the Funny Pages

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:35:04 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: well.blogs.nytimes.com

A Death in the Funny Pages Stirs Controversy

The death of a cartoon character from breast cancer has stirred emotions and controversy in the cancer community.

Lisa Moore, a character in the widely syndicated Funky Winkerbean comic strip, had been battling breast cancer in the funny pages since 1999. Earlier this month she stopped chemotherapy, dying in hospice care on Oct. 4

You are a man who seems to be without any idea of the pain [you] are inflicting,” wrote one woman on the discontinued TheCancerBlog.com, as Lisa’s character was dying. “You do not have the right to put this horror in a family newspaper.'’

Mr. Batiuk notes that Lisa’s cartoon memory has triggered a real-life effort to raise money for cancer research called Lisa’s Legacy Fund.

“Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe,” will be donated to the fund as well.

In the comic strip, Lisa is survived by her husband and 5-year-old daughter.

Tags: comic, breast cancer, death

John McCarthy Quotes

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:08:43 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: en.wikiquote.org

John McCarthy

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.

It's just a pissing contest, but unfortunately the contestants never seem to run out of piss.

People mourn when a person dies, but no-one mourns the billions of intestinal bacteria that his death dooms. Speciesism, I calls it.

When there's a will to fail, obstacles can be found.

No-one has yet built a monument so high that a bird can't fly over and shit on it.

Tags: quotes, john mccarthy, ai, computer science

How many secounds do you have to live?

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:27:46 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: www.deathclock.com

To view your Death Clock, simply complete the fields in the form to the left and hit the “Check Your Death Clock” button.

Tags: death, clock