by sjm | Jun 19, 2023 | The Dying Man
Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle. Plato’s Apology is basically a transcript of Socrates speech/defense at his trial where he was found guilty and sentenced to death by drinking a cup of poison (hemlock). The following is an exert from that speech...
by sjm | Jun 18, 2023 | The Dying Man
Death came calling the other day, a soft tentative knock from the other side so as to not disturb the small children, or anyone else but me, and it did; a soft ripple across the pond, subtle but distinctly sharp, a shiver when I saw the value, and I knew it was not...
by sjm | Dec 31, 2022 | The Dying Man
My last contact didn’t pan out. I guess it was fake, but I think I had a real one, which was cool. A voice talking back from the ether. A voice called Miriam.
by sjm | Sep 16, 2022 | The Dying Man
In less than two months it will have been 4 years since I first thought I might be actively dying for the second time in my life, and a few months less than that since I last wrote a post. One thing has remained the same, and three things changed in the interval: I am...
by DyingMan | Dec 15, 2018 | The Dying Man
I’ve been dying since I was eighteen months old; however, this latest rendition seems the real thing. I had a glimmer of it seventeen years ago during one of my other attempts at dying, a premonition at the time that perhaps I’d not seen the last of it. It...
by DyingMan | Dec 14, 2018 | The Dying Man
I know what it is now: –my Burden; or, at least what I think it is; or, I should say, what I hope it isn’t. Cryptogenic bilateral fibrosing pleuritis is, or may be; or, I pray, not be my burden. A string of not overly large not overly confusing words. Quite...
