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A Fight Club Moment
I was watching an old interview with Robert Mitchum the other day. After thinking that he was still hot even in his fifties, it hit me that he was dead. I mean, it really sank in that he was thoroughly...
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Death and Taxes
I have to figure out who my oldest friend is now, since my oldest friend died. She went in for a simple office-visit procedure – an hour or two in the office, two or three days recovery. Instead, she...
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Overheard at My Own Funeral
You’re a fly on the wall at your own funeral. What are people saying about you? Great… I’m a fly. It’s just my luck that reincarnation actually exists and I have to attend my own damn funeral as a damn...
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What I'm Avoiding
I had a good hard think on what it is that I’m avoiding and I came up empty. If you had asked me two or three years ago, there would be a whole host of things with which I could have answered, but now,...
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The Dead File
Another friend of mine died today. I wouldn’t exactly call him a close friend, but I did know him for a number of years. The closeness of our friendship was mainly precluded by the fact that he spent...
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Screw You, Reaperman
My greatest achievement is still being alive. I’ve looked the grim reaper in the face and told him to bugger off on many occasions. We have a very intimate relationship. We’ve been on again, off again...
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Words To Live By
This has been a terrible week. Absolutely terrible. So, whatever motto I’m likely to have is something along the lines of everything sucks, life is unfair or go die. As I’ve discussed before, I’m not...
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On Being Dead
My first experience with death was when I died, although I don’t remember it. I had pneumococcal meningitis as an infant and died a hundred times. I wouldn’t even be alive today if not for one doggedly...
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Tombstone
What do you want your tombstone to say? Well, I don’t intend to die, so this is an irrelevant question. I haven’t quite determined how to become immortal yet, but I will. I figure, eventually, if my...
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If I Only Had 10 Years to Live
If you only had ten more years to live, would you do anything differently? I very well might only have ten more years to live or even only ten more days. There is no expiration date printed on me...
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The Big C
My dad and I have never been all that close. My father, like his father before him, isn’t much given to chit-chat. He says what needs to be said. There is no such thing as an awkward pause in a...
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On The Suicide Of A Friend
He wasn’t my closest friend. He lived on the other side of the country. I haven’t even laid eyes on him in over five years. But he was my friend. Many years ago, I spent two weeks with on tour with a...
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Life Goes On Except When It Doesn’t
Living with a depressive brain means being one with the inevitability of death, specifically your own. Depressives think about death
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The 10 Hardest Things About Grief
It has been three days since the love of my life died. They have been entirely surreal. I think I’m
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FOG’s Blog O’ Death
I should probably just change the name of this blog to the title of this post, because that’s mostly what
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Traumas
Losing the love of your life really sucks for a number of reasons. Nothing will ever be the same again.
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Grief Diary: Week 3
It’s been three weeks since the love of my life died. Three entire weeks of grief. You begin to think
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Grief Diary: Week 4
It has been almost a month. Not quite, but almost a month since the love of my life died. It’s
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The Deterioration Of Belief
In the wake of my most recent tragedy–the death of the love of my life–I’ve heard a lot of well-meaning
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A Little Dream
I have a little dream. It’s really a rather tiny dream, barely visible to the naked eye. It’s buried deep
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