• Do we have a duty to die?

    Even more so than sex, Death in the West is taboo.  We don’t talk about death.  We don’t discuss death.  We have convinced ourselves that we must stay alive at all costs. (no matter the quality of life or thought to the effects upon others) Death disjoints us.  Scares us.  Kills us. Should it? In a very humble and humanizing article, John Hardwig asks a very pointed, but necessary q...
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Do we have a duty to die?

Mar 7th

Posted by Henry Imler in Body

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Even more so than sex, Death in the West is taboo. 
We don’t talk about death. 
We don’t discuss death. 
We have convinced ourselves that we must stay alive at all costs.
(no matter the quality of life or thought to the effects upon others)
Death disjoints us.  Scares us.  Kills us.
Should it?
In a very humble and [...]

Story Telling

Feb 19th

Posted by Henry Imler in Story

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“Lovecraft, and a host of others after him, couldn’t see that Howard never intended to create a universe removed from our own, as he had done when writing the Kull stories and as so many writers of epic fantasy have done since.
By carefully choosing names that resembled those found in our history and legendry, Howard [...]