Hi all, I've been talking to Jon a bit lately, and we touched on the issue of dying during freediving. Now, I've had this thread in my head for a long time, and still am not sure how to present it, but it's been bugging me, so....here goes.
If I die freediving, or for any other reason for that matter, I would like you all to know why all of a sudden I stop showing up here on the forums. I would also like to know if my friends on DBlue have "shuffled off this mortal coil", to quote John Cleese with his parrot.
In Western culture, death is so taboo that there are a lot of problems created by not being able to talk about it, but I don't want to offend anyone.
So what I am proposing is that if you are comfortable with it, you tell someone who cares about you how to log on here and tell us if you have joined the mermaids.
I am very comfortable with death, and don't expect everyone to feel the same, but maybe think it over. I feel that this is a nice community that I belong to, and some cyber-ceremony and words of comfort would not be inappropriate if it comes to a situation where one of us leaves. On the Freedivelist, they post pictures and memoriams for spearos who move on..maybe check it out and let me know if I'm way out in left field.
Warmly and respectfully,
Erik Y.
If I die freediving, or for any other reason for that matter, I would like you all to know why all of a sudden I stop showing up here on the forums. I would also like to know if my friends on DBlue have "shuffled off this mortal coil", to quote John Cleese with his parrot.
In Western culture, death is so taboo that there are a lot of problems created by not being able to talk about it, but I don't want to offend anyone.
So what I am proposing is that if you are comfortable with it, you tell someone who cares about you how to log on here and tell us if you have joined the mermaids.
I am very comfortable with death, and don't expect everyone to feel the same, but maybe think it over. I feel that this is a nice community that I belong to, and some cyber-ceremony and words of comfort would not be inappropriate if it comes to a situation where one of us leaves. On the Freedivelist, they post pictures and memoriams for spearos who move on..maybe check it out and let me know if I'm way out in left field.
Warmly and respectfully,
Erik Y.