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I always enjoy media showing Death as empathetic and compassionate, instead of some flavor of evil. It’s a comforting thought
Death understands stuff we can't. So he's scary. Just like death.
When you’ve seen families, when you’ve seen nations in a blink, and when you’ve been there for the most intimate moment of birth, but you are always just known as Death.
Life and death two sides of the same coin. Life is "not dead", remove death and what becomes of life? Just pointless existence.
I was dead for billions of years before I was alive, and I'll be dead for billions of years after. Nothing was scary about not existing
You weren't dead. You just weren't.
I tried explaining this to my coworker (he’s 27 I’m going to be 24 this year) his mom recently passed so I know a lot of this is on his mind.
He asked me what the difference is between Nihilism/Atheism. So I explained to him.
He then asked me what I was and I told him I’m agnostic. I do believe there’s something after this, I just don’t have the ability to say as to what exactly it would be.
I told him that I don’t think we should be using the time we do have asking questions that we don’t have the answers to, and to not use this precious time worrying. There’s so much more to do/see/experience.
I then continued by saying “you’re asking the wrong question, it’s like asking “why is the sky blue?” It’s a good question, but a better question would be, “why is the sky gray today?” As it’s blue most everyday, but the days in which it’s gray means something abnormal is going to happen.
Lastly trying to explain to him about the “after.” Since I told him Nihilists believe that nothing exists after this he kept reverting back to “oh so they see blackness?” And I would tell him, “no, there would be no blackness as there would be no eyes to see color, so no black.” “So it would just be void and dark?” “No, it would be nothing, no body, no eyes, no experience, no feeling. You wouldn’t be here if you were able to “feel” what I’m talking about.”
My aunt and I talked about this a few years ago. I didn't really understand the concept of "nothingness" though until I had to get surgery last year. I can't call it a traditional "near death experience" but what I experienced while I was under was absolute peace and calm, like nothing I've experienced before. There was nothing, just me vibing with the universe. That's what I think waits for us after we die... My mom's a staunch Catholic so she gets mad when I try to discuss it with her because she has to believe that heaven is just clouds, angels and harps. But, I find comfort in sort of knowing that it's nothing to be afraid of.
I was hit by a car few months and woke up in the ground, felt like nothing i didnt even remember getting hit
actually it felt like good sleep, death is eternal rest i guess
My favorite poem is Death Be Not Proud (I forget the actual title), but one of the lines is "from rest and sleep which but thy picture be/much pleasure, then much more from thee must flow".
When I got anesthesia to get my wisdom teeth removed, it was like I literally blinked and started to groggily wake up in a completely different room. No concept of sleep, no dreams, no concept of time passing. Just eyes closed and then opened not a second later. Went from sitting up in front of a window in the daylight to laying down in a dark room with no windows. It was honestly so discombobulating.
“why is the sky blue?”
Rayleigh scattering. Sorry rewatched Ald Noah zero recently lol.
I once watched a family friend, who's a washed-out physicist turned cook, try to explain to his niece that the sky is blue because of Mie scattering. She was about 10 at the time. We also had philosophical conversations about belief systems and so on, and my goodness, I'm an atheist and he blew my cynicism right out of the water. lol
The sky is blue because air is blue. If it was Rayleigh scattering, then it would be Violet.
One could argue they're the same state of being : )
But who knows? Maybe something crazy is waiting on the other side!
How does your life have a point when you die? It seems even more pointless, as everything you build is just temporary. It's like saying building a house has a point because it will get destroyed by a tornado or tsunami, without tsunamis building houses would be pointless.
Death does not give meaning to life. All existence is pointless.
Even with death, life is still pointless existence. I don't say that to be depressing. You can think that way and be happy about it too.
That's when you go to your cricket machine, print out your own point, and slap it on your life's face lol
Make your own purpose and seek it relentlessly. Even if it's just generally being content.
That's exactly right. Nothing has any purpose or value in life unless you give it purpose and value. Someone can decide that the next coin they find in a parking lot is now the center of their universe and ya know what? That's ok.
One of my favorite depictions of death is in a song by Woods of Ypres called 'Keeper of the Ledger' where Death isn't even really a reaper of souls, he's just a book keeper for the business of nature who is only concerned that you return your rental body on time. He's not compassionate or malevolent, he's just doing his job.
Gonna have to google how this concept has been made into literature as I’m sure it exists.
In D&D, there’s a god of death who’s very similar, Jergal. He managed to sort of delegate much of his previous work to a few new gods, and now largely just works as a scribe, recording the names of all who have died. The new gods have a different sort of relationship to death (one is the murder god, so it’s kind of like a different manifestation of death), but that’s a different story.
Death as an evil is a very modern evangelical concept. Around the globe, reaper figures have been used to show the inevitability of death since the age of recorded history, with no end of the globe untouched by the phenomena.
Death even as a literal anthropomorphized form of compassion and almost final state of nurture, dates back millennia in human societies, on nearly every corner of the planet.
Even mesoamerican cultures like the Aztecs had Reaper-esque figures in Mictecacihuatl and Mictlantecuhtli, who's arrival assured both your physical and metaphysical collection and passage to the correct afterlife.
Meanwhile in Japan's edo period, the Shinigami were human-shaped spirits who appeared before the ill and dying and invited them to join in comfort and peace at the end of the metaphorical road that is your life.
It really is odd and frustrating what we've made of it in modern times when juxtaposed to ideas of solace and serenity that it used to represent.
The disconnect with nature and obsession with possessions in modern society tends to change our view on death from one of connectedness in a common cyclic experience, to one of invasion and robbery. Out of fear we possess ourselves and others and cling to life, so Death becomes personified as a thief, a frightening figure. The closer to nature society gets, the more they seem to be at peace with death. Our society is so detached from it that the grim reaper isn't even a good icon anymore, because most people don't know what reaping is, or harvesting, our food is not made by us but by a farm belter we'll never meet. A better modern incarnation of death in western society would be an armed burglar.
In a tarot deck, Death isn't actually death, it's just change and permanence. Tarot cards originated in the middle East as a game deck and got...mystified and spiritualized and the late 1700s in France and Italy, and even at that point, it's representation was permanent change, an ending of things but also a new beginning, etc
I think that torquing of death into a fearful figure is really modern and really north American and I enjoyed both of these takes in that. This parent comment and the one I replied to are excellent analysis.
I had no clue that Tarot was originally a game that was mystified in Europe. That's fascinating to know.
Thought to have come from the Mamluks in Egypt
And made its way across Europe as a game called Tarok Wiki and into Italy as a game called Trionfi
Till it landed in the Venetian and then Marseilles Royalties where is was mutated as a way to shift and criticize courtly opinion through "readings", similar to how a court Jester might gently point out the people's thoughts on things using humour to lighten the delivery.
From there it caught on with like...one or two sort of "occultists" though I don't think they'd have used that word at the time. Ironically, the first person was a pastor.
They jammed it full of kaballah symbolism as well as astrology and roman\greek mythology and it starts to resemble the Tarot we know today.
I like this idea and might try and draw it. Thanks!
Death as an evil is a very modern evangelical concept
My history teacher once told the class that celebrating the birthday is a relative new concept and before that it was much more usual to celebrate the death day, since earth was believed to be the challenge before getting to heaven.
Never heared this from somewhere else but since my teacher is a knowledgeable person I just trust him on that.
Mostly in Asian cultures, so depending where you are from then it may be true.
I don’t see how it’s an evangelical thing when part of the appeal of Christian belief is that death takes you to a better place than this life.
Quite simply, with the world being generally more comfortable to live in than ever before, and probably ironically due to a declining religious belief, we don’t want to leave and we don’t know what comes after.
So we fear death more than ever.
I think it's the general demonizing of non-Christian figures. Evangelical Christianity is all about securing Christianity as 'the one true religion' and often times that involves turning figures from other religions, or other perceived religions, into something satanic or evil.
With Christianity, if you've 'been a good Christian' (heavy on the quotes as we're talking evangelicals here) then you're not being met with death. You're being transported to the bright gates and being met by Peter.
With evangelism death more represents what you face when you lack Christianity and/or are going to hell. He's depicted as being scary because he represents your fate if you follow non Christian religions.
Lots of modern Christianity is focused on how the default is hell and the only way to salvation is to follow their singular version of Christianity
Speaking as a 30 plus year former Christian, Christians fear death more than most.
"What can the harvest hope for, if not the care of the reaper man?"
one of my favourite quotes GNU terry pratchett
Sounds like you'd love Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
I highly recommend losing yourself in that world for a while.
GNU Pratchett
Check out Sandman (either the show or comic). Death is one of the best characters in the series.
I've read the comic, but the Death episode of the TV series is one of my favourite episodes of TV ever.
The title for both is beautiful - "The Sound of Her Wings". The comic stayed with me for years, so seeing the TV version was really special.
Like disc world
First thing that popped in my head when i read this
İ live in the middle east and in our culture, Death is an archangel who serves God.
İm always surprised when i see other people see Death as a "demon" or an "evil force"
Pratchett's version of Death is great. I like when he's popped up in the Discworld books I've read so far.
One of the best scenes in Discworld IMO is when one of the witches performing midwife duties challenges Death to a card game for the life of the child, and Death purposefully throws the game.
The Best depiction of Death in any form of fiction is Death from the Discworld series. And I’m fairly certain that anyone who has read any of the books (or watched the three movies he’s in) would agree with me
I like it when Death talks in capital letters
Actually kinda wholesome, life in itself is a dream, enjoy it while it last
And all shall wake from the dream eventually.
But let it go for as much as you can
Rage, rage, against the dying of the night
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
Flammable felines - what a weird subject for poetry.
Flammable Felines sounds like a band that failed before it ever existed
In deep forests of the night
I think my pants are full of shite
It’s squishing as I fly this kite
-hits snooze-
Finally you’ve learned something, airsick wetlander
I was wondering if anyone else would think of the Aiel after reading that.
Good hunter
May you find your worth in the waking world.
A hoonter must hoont
May you find water and shade
I think the best thing is that when he's on he dreams of Rebellion and has a new hope, but by the end, he has no dreams, he's Darth Vader on a wall, completely disillusioned.
But postmortem, he's back to being hopeful.
Merrily Merrily Merrily Merrily life is but a dream
Row, Row, Row Your Boat has been telling us this for generations.
„I felt like I was watching a dream I could never wake up from“
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
I think it's bittersweet.
Pretty shitty dream when you're homeless, a drug addict or even in a war, if I can say so.
Nightmares are dreams.
i got long covid and it def seems more a nightmare than a dream. in fact, the life you live before you get sick or disabled or whatever seems like a dream and the life you develop after changing into a nightmare feels real and the one before seems fake. it's a weird experience.
Yeah except you missed the part where he spent 40 years at a soul sucking job because attaining a life worth living is blockaded by capitalism. Thats kinda the message here. People need to collectively agree that this isnt the life worth living.
“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
― William Goldman, The princess bride
ah yes remember when people 20k years ago all lived worth lives worth living and followed and accomplished their dreams
A big part of it could be the expectation of where we should be vs where we actually are. We’ve been sold for generations now the idea that this new age of technology will massively improve our lives and lower the amount of work we all need to do. That just hasn’t played out at all, in fact largely the opposite for most of us. The world used to have a lot more excuses for being unfair
But also, shit was a lot less abstracted back then. People had a lot more freedom to provide for themselves and their family in their own way, on their own schedule, of their own volition. Sitting in a desk with 17 layers of people above you, less than half of whom you’ve ever seen in-person, with dozens of other employees doing the exact same shit all so the company’s profits can continue rising while your compensation stagnates… there’s a lot less fulfillment in that, even if the overall life we’re living is materially better with modern homes and all that.
Idk, I’m no sociologist but it’s pretty clear that there’s an ever-growing discontentment among people nowadays, and it’s gotta come from somewhere. Obviously there’s always been folks who’ve struggled and lived shitty lives, and unfortunately there probably will be, but far too many people lately seem to be feeling that way even if their overall position isn’t that far down.
Oh fuck, this hits
Oh, geez...
Wow! That‘s a cool pencil! It always teleports back into his hand!
Yeah, just gonna "hide" this whole thread. I don't have the urge for an existential crisis today.
It's only Tuesday for heaven's sake!
But a new Kurtzgesagt video just dropped!
Yeah, I’m only 31 and I feel like I’ve stopped dreaming since I was 25
For real, I'm happy other commenters found enjoyment, but I was already sitting here wanting to cry, why I am working this hard? Life is a shit show.
Didn’t expect to have my heartstrings yanked before 9am but here we are
Reminds me of The Loving Reaper.
Only read if you want a good cry.
Yup I knew it would be /u/jenny-jinya. Her comics are so beautifully bittersweet. Always expect a tear when you read them.
She is awesome and I started reading again a few, had to stop, big man at work tearing up wasn't something anyone expected at 6 am in the morning.
I saw this before, i knew what was coming. Still teared up. These comics are on another level
As soon as I see the cover image I’m like “oh god oh fuck I don’t wanna cry”
Oohhh that's it, f*** this thread
Oh come on that's the happy Jenny comic!
Ha! Did you forget the old women eventually gets dementia and poor Daisy can't do anything about it while her owner just fucking loses her mind? ONLY TEARS.
Yeah like I said the happy Jenny comic.
At this point, fuck the thread, fuck humanity and fuck the internet for the day.
See you tomorrow
... You weren't lying
God dammit.
As someone who's deathly allergic to cats, luckily this one didn't get me at all haha
Lucky duck. My childhood/early adulthood cat was a black cat/void.
This one hits every time I read.
God dammit, now I'm sobbing on the toilet. I hope you're happy
My black cat was hit by a car. Sometimes i think it was on purpose. He was such a smart cat. Super athletic and a master escape artist. Could open doors and everything. I don’t think I’ve ever cried as much as I did when I was burying him.
Dude I read up to the part where the cat said they hit me on purpose and I AM ALREADY CRYING.
jfc why did I read that
you have no rights to make me cry at work! :(
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4mo
Don't show this to suicidal people.
Too late
Oh you
Please be well. Take care.
I can confirm
I got reported 😅
Rare instance of redditcares being used not to harass someone.
I agree. On my way to the hospital now. Unrelated. Cut my finger open making breakfast. The universe showing me some love
Keep your head up king
Read this as I was falling asleep in the waiting room of the ER. I'll try, I'll try.
ER visits can suck harder than an intimate partner that's giving their absolute everything into blowing you to the point you are sure they've sucked the bedsheets up between your cheeks and managed to suck the soul out of you as you launch such an unprecedented amount of rope you start to wonder if you are somehow urinating semen and your eyes roll back with a newfound certainty that stepping on a scale afterwards would show you've lost at least a pound.
So, hope you get home/better soon. You can always DM if you need a friend :D
Wtf lol
I'm ready man, come take me I got nothing left
Nah, I’m good. This was honestly quite wholesome. Lets you know you’re still in there and it’ll be time when it’s time.
Dammit, OP! This is beautiful.
Thank you
Not sure if I’m happy or sad with this one. Someone please tell me what I should be feeling.
Melancholy? That's what I'm feeling from it.
You should be incredibly horny about boney men staring you from behind your window.
Phew glad I'm not the only one
Yes
I'd say supersad
Call your mom and tell her you love her.
time to enjoy the final best dream
Guess i'm the only one finding that incredible depressing
No... I think if we're lucky we get to the end and then realise it was all okay. That it was all always okay. And that it's also okay at the end too. I think it's hard to see while we are it the thick of it. But it seems once we get to the end... everything just falls away and there is clarity. We can't get that clarity before then though. That's the hard to understand part. We see that there is something TO understand, but we don't seem to understand it til the end.
You absolutely can have that clarity before the end, friend
I think maybe some really hardcore monks who have managed to perfect that "only live in the present moment" thing can have full clarity. Most of the time, even when we "understand" life and are fully okay with the thought of eventually dying, we still have a lot of "baggage" especially of future stuff we await, expect, dread, etc. While we're still in the thick of living, it's not really feasible to completely give up on those thoughts. We care about our friends, family, about ourselves, our actions and their consequences...
I think it's only once we fully let go of all of it, of our future, of our past and of our present, which most will do right right in the end before their death, that we can achieve that ultimate clarity. Not just understanding, but also full acceptance. And it's good that way. We are different throughout our lives. We develop for every little phase, tackle appropriate challenges and keep on growing. No point for a 40 year old to act the way a 5 year old does, and no point in acting like a 90 year old either.
That’s nice if we all got assured that we will die in the comfiness of our arm chear when we get old. This shit called life sucks major balls. So many fucking bullshit in this world, from dreams not even close to be lived to kids living 10 years and dying in some coal mine some where. This whole thing is depressing, most of us just pretend to be happy so we don’t bring the mood down on those around us. I don’t know.
It's grim, I'm absolutely baffled that people in here seem to think this is some kind of life is beautiful message.
I don’t see anything wrong with it. Reality is most of us don’t do anything remarkable with our lives. That’s okay. It doesn’t have to be depressing or some kind of failure. I think life is more about the journey and less about what you achieve.
What do dreams have to do with achievements? When you dream you are on a journey. This comic is pretty explicitly about someone who had to abandon their dreams and join the (likely quite depressing) corporate rat race world.
It is touching in the end because death releases him from his suffering, but the message here is very obvious.
It’s normal to let go of a dream. Maybe this is just my age showing but I think some dreams that suited me when I was younger aren’t really relevant to me anymore. I don’t dream about being famous or writing a bestselling book anymore. I’m content to just read and enjoy other people’s books. My dreams now are different. I don’t think it’s depressing, either. Bittersweet, maybe.
I agree, it is a typical thing to let go of a dream.
Depends on how you fill the blanks
Holy.. how depressing
7 am and you already fucked me up. 😂
AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.
Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
The end.
Those are the last three tweets from the official Terry Pratchett account. An author that crated one of the most wholesome Death personas I have ever seen. Strong enough to have one of his death quotes (from reaper man) tattooed onto my arm.
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
We thought of the same Death. My comment for the thread was
DUDE, WHERE'S MY SCYTHE?
Because I felt it would have been a Pratchett kind of line, as he loved referencing other media. Maybe not a Death one, even though he forever sought to be more human.
And that's the thing. Discworld Death can't actually care, but he tries his hardest to approximate caring, and make himself - the actual scariest thing ever - less scary. Which just means he does care... kinda. It's his entire arc, really. Trying to discover humanity, trying to care about things and people. While also doing The Duty
super uplifting
dude just lived pointless life and then died
This comic really needs some doomer soundtrack
You forget how death kept on harassing him all the while since he was like 10.
Yeah. Just came over and like: "how's your dreams, loser?"
"Tick tock, Barry"
At least he had company, unlike real life.
Every life is pointless.
I love the depiction of death being a chill and person. "Now we're talkin" when he's nice and ready.
Sad af
That's depressing...
I love your comics. This is my favourite. Very touching, in a weird way.
this isn't uplifting. This is depressing
Its all a matter of perspective and worldview. With broadened horizons its definitely melancholic but also a nice gesture that life in of itself is one big dream, we can learn to appreciate even small moments or the mundane. Looking back at hard moments for myself, they were necessary to learn and grow from them. If life was always easy, we’d all take it a lot more for granted. Nothing is set in stone as we try to make sense of the absurd fact that we’re spinning on a big ball of rock, water and gas in the void of space- and yet we’ve been able to make it this far. Nothing is perfect, there is a lot to criticize in the world and I do it often. Daily. But its nice to zoom out sometimes and appreciate life for what it is.
You heard it here first guys, Davecontra is in favour of the death of Star wars fans.
56 years old. And this comic made me tearl. Its so exactly how I feel
I find this uplifting. The struggles of life are the temporary dream. Your childhood desires and optimistic outlook -- that's real. And you'll return to it. That's who you are and who you've always been. The world just tries to make you forget about it.
This is my favourite comic on here so far. Got me tearing, nice one!
nah thats fucked up
This is the most depressing thing I've ever seen on this sub. "Don't bother dreaming because life isn't worth living"?
Fuck, my anxiety and existential dread just went up .
Congrats OP.
this is very disheartening ir
kind death is best death
So did the boy live to be an old man, and when he died death took him as a boy?
It looks like Death came and took him as a boy, but allowed him to dream out his entire life, which is why we see him as a boy in the last panel.
So I'll work my way to physical insolvency, never see my dreams achieved, only to be freed by death? Word, nice bleak way to start a nice bleak morning in this nice bleak week of what will surely not be another Kafkaesque bleak year. Copium
Wholesomeness
Sadness.
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks
How is this an uplifting comic 😭
Well that was dark.
Art is subjective bros
I really don't see the "super uplifting" part
This was oddly sad and comforting.
This is sad, but it starting to feel like a true thing
Hmm fascinating. I don't see this as a message of inspiration for others or myself but rather a reflection of the author and their personal life
How the fuck is this uplifting?
Phenomenal comic! This made me want to cry ..
What does the last picture really signifies ?
🥹🌹
Why are my eyes so wet? Must be that damn neighbor chopping onions again. Sniff
Well this is depressing af
Op I didn’t need to cry like this today
This comic makes me sad and happy at the same time.
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