Lucem Ferre

Yup.

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Frownland

Modern jazz is just John Coltrane's brain anyways.

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OccultHawk

Trying to get personal and cryptic, huh? Found a little hole in my logic, didn’t you?

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Frownland

Yes. Yes.

I also have conceded that you are right on that particular aspect of jazz despite still respecting what it takes to progress someone else's concepts.

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Justthefacts

Yeah sure I fight for your stance on that, but I wanna live to at least 80. Imagine the sound of jazz in 60 years?

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I get where you're coming from OccultHawk. With the numerous postings about family deaths on here as of late [2 of my own], your timing is fucking impeccable! [/sarcasm]

People want to be alive because it is preferable to the inverse. Who wants to be dead? Not this guy. What good are you dead? [sans the lucrative life insurance policy]

Just wait until transhumanism gets released to the public. The uploading of ones consciousness.

Dig this: The 2045 Initiative

Lisnaholic

Of course we all get dealt a different set of cards, play out our hand differently, blah blah, but I'm sorry to see several posters suggesting that a short life is better than a long one. If life is a card game, we are all playing for what we want; physical and mental wellbeing, a bit of cash and a bit of love. You never know for sure when you're going to turn up a really great card, so, for Lucem F especially, it seems unwise to leave the table so early in the game.

^ I think there's a false premise or something here, Occult. You seem to suggest that reading a lot of books, somehow detracts from the pleasure of reading the next one. I haven't really found that to be the case.

^ Yeah, this is a circumstance that justifies co-operating with death. Someone I love recently decided not to continue chemotherapy because it made her feel so terrible. Instead, she chose to make the best of her remaining months. She was able to face the inevitable with dignity and quiet good grace. Not everyone gets themself a delusional t-shirt, OH.


^ As you get closer to 80, you may find that the number will change. The other evening my friend and I were trading opinions about living to 100.

^ Yep, I'm 100% with this good old common sense. And if I may be allowed to offer a piece of advice to younger members, I'd say: Don't presume that your later years will be less joyful than your youth. After all, when Mick Jagger was asked, in his mid-fifties, about sex, he said, "It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?"

If you have the good fortune to stay healthy and stay optimistic you can continue to have a great life - as per Chula's parents, by the look of them.

*Cue Cat Stevens* : "Look at me, I'm old but I'm happy..."

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Lucem Ferre

Sick of waiting, I really don't want to do this anymore...

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OccultHawk

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org

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rubber soul

Lucem, is there anyone in real life you can talk to?

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