One thing about death, personified or not, is that death isn't the enemy. If someone shoots me tomorrow, it's not Death I have a beef with - it's the shooter. I know people who've cursed death because of cancer - cancer is life run amok, and it caused the death - death just took over when the time came.
That doesn't change a whole lot, of course. It's a bit easier to blame death than shooters or cancer. But sometimes it helps direct energy at the right problem. If a loved one is dying, that hurts - but what hurts? The impending loss? The things unsaid? Wanting more time to be with them? Then sometimes, not always, you find there is something you can do about that thing that hurts.
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dancing_serpent
Thought I'd responded to this earlier...
Date: 2017-01-07 02:47 am (UTC)That doesn't change a whole lot, of course. It's a bit easier to blame death than shooters or cancer. But sometimes it helps direct energy at the right problem. If a loved one is dying, that hurts - but what hurts? The impending loss? The things unsaid? Wanting more time to be with them? Then sometimes, not always, you find there is something you can do about that thing that hurts.