October 13, 2007
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Featured Question #67: Brain Death; a poem
If you were brain dead, would you want to be kept alive by a ventilator? Why or why not?
Were I brain dead, I’d be ready to move on.
Why keep a corpse alive when the spirit is gone?
The body’s just a vehicle driven by a ghost,
a spark animating as it wanders the nethermost
labyrinths of the mind, lost until it sees the light
without pause in the door for one last goodnight,
leaping up to see where the dream has ended
let the dead be dead and memories be mended.
* * * *No… do not keep me alive artificially. Spend your money on something else. There’s no need to waste it on a dead thing. The dead have no need for money or other things. Stick me in a burlap sack and plant me under a tree… no embalming please; it’s not good for the environment. Feed my flesh to the ravens and grind my bones to powder or cremate me and mix the ashes with mortar… make a little statue of me if you must keep some momento, but I won’t be here. At least, not in the shape you know me now. I might come back as a tree, so legalize hemp for papermaking so you don’t accidentally cut me down. I’ve decided that if I do come back, it won’t be as a human, but maybe I won’t be back. I’ve been here often enough, I think I have had my fill of it. I might even go so far as to say I am sick of it. No one ever learns anything; they don’t even bother trying to be better people most of the time. Why should I keep coming back to help such little minds evolve? I’m an old and apparently crotchety soul. Leave me to my rest and keep off the grass if you can’t appreciate it. I look forward to being both more and less than I am. I look forward to loosing myself in the universal mind and making my contribution of self-experience to the greater good of single-being. The rest of the human race can catch up when it can.
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Comments (5)
actually he was a real person they found not too long ago his little box in a room with many of his relatives which they did some type of theological something or other to figure out the statistics of a mary, joseph, james and some other of his relatives to be in the same cave and desided it was 1 in a million and something that they would have found something similart to that ever. then they buried his little box of stone with his remaining bones in it beside a little tree somewhere. so i do beleive he was a real human being.
i wish i could give you the name of the documentary i watched. it was rather interesting.
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