Hmmm, tough call. I can't be too judgemental because I keep a dried frog and a dead butterfly. I would say this embroidered "vanity" is rather ok because however lacking a bit in poetry, it is educational. Just don't show it to normal, sane people!
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One of the most impressing podcasts I've ever listened to on the radio (this was when the word podcast didn't exist yet, so, yea,linear public radio) is called "The Hours of Death" ("Stundenbuch des Todes") and describes in abundant detail what's happening to a (human) body after death, every step of re-organisation and decay there is until literal complete decomposition. Written by german anatomist Gotthard Schmidt in 1998, and broadcasted every few yeears. It's not goth mindporn as one might expect, it's calm, silent and poetic and yet extremely informative. Not to be confused with the "Stundenbuch des Sterbens", which is also great but not nearly as brilliant and decent as the first one.
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Death is the one and only certainty we all will ever have, it can be the most poetic, beautiful and touching moment in all our lives, or at least, we should be able to experience it that way. That's why the Palliative Care Movement is so important and should matter to anyone.
You are true to your name... I agree on the poetry of death, I just have mixed views about the whole rotting process.
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My name is based on my condition of aphantasia, I'm actually quite the happy and life-affirming fellow.
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The rotting process is the very beginning of new life, but I get how one might find this point of view too sinister., especially when one DOES have inner pictures ;-)
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Death is the one and only certainty we all will ever have, it can be the most poetic, beautiful and touching moment in all our lives, or at least, we should be able to experience it that way. That's why the Palliative Care Movement is so important and should matter to anyone.
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The rotting process is the very beginning of new life, but I get how one might find this point of view too sinister., especially when one DOES have inner pictures ;-)