Last Statements
walzr.com12 points by sethbannon 5 hours ago
12 points by sethbannon 5 hours ago
An interesting Asian counterpart is the Japanese death haiku.
MUMON GENSEN
Died on the twenty-second day of the third month, 1390 at the age of sixty-eight
Life is an ever-rolling wheel
And every day is the right one.
He who recites poems at his death
Adds frost to snow.
There's at least one wrongful conviction in there.
Interesting but now suprizing how many have found solace in religion.
How come no one ever makes a joke?
The joke is in the long-winded, self-centered empty apologies and appeals to God; the punchline is in the subsequent brief and clinical descriptions of completely unforgivable acts. These are nauseating to read.
I advise having a read through Sapolskys book "Determined" to get another perspective