Annie Glenn, the wife of astronaut John Glenn, recently died. She was 100, but yet she "died of COVID."
When you're 100 your dance card is full of "Date with Death" anyway.
When you're 55-60, Death is sending you postcards saying "Wish you were here."
Recently I've watched tv show called "true detectives", it's not bad it's rather good
And one of the two cops is some sort of ex junky nihilist philosopher. And he painted one of the most accurate and depressing picture of the human condition in one paragraph or so... I wish the scene was available on tubes... Ah, that's it, right there.... https://youtu.be/A8x73UW8Hjk?t=118
"They don't want to know that a man bites a dog, because the world is not supposed to happen like that. In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds."
- Sir Terry Pratchett, "The Truth"
That's a pretty deep speech for a television show, btw.
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