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wack-N-dangle
Gym climber
the ground up
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Dec 21, 2010 - 03:06pm PT
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The living like to talk about dying, but it is the dying who really seem to speak about living. Seeing a dead body, there was definitely something missing. I could understand why people believe in a soul, or a spirit.
There is a harsh reality in the dust, and bits of bones in my dad's ashes. It's elemental and unchangeable. Maybe living is making something beautiful from an existence that can be unfair, imperfect, and ephemeral, but still good.
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FireIntheCity
Mountain climber
from t'Hate-haunted canyon of human despair
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Dec 21, 2010 - 03:44pm PT
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...while serving others
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:01pm PT
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By the time you leave
I'll be saving all my green
For a homebound train to carry me
On old familiar steam.
I'd wish you'd hurry up
And leave or come around.
Well the moon is waning hard tonight.
I'm leaving my home town.
And the train rolls on with no pilot.
And the station's left me I know.
But if you should happen to find it,
Please bring it home, bring it home.
I traded all my stops
For a pillow made of rails.
In an empty room I listen
To the lonely whistle wails.
I woke up to feet
That I took to be your shoes,
And the train lay tracks that deafened me,
Shook my insides loose.
And the train rolls on with no pilot.
And the stations left me I know.
But if you should happen to find it,
Please bring it home, bring it home.
And the point of all this living,
Is the dying still to come.
And I could be forgiven,
but i just won't, I just won't.
Old 97's tune. "Old Familiar Steam"
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2010 - 04:01pm PT
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let me be an inspiration,
not a hinderance.
let me be a mountain,
before i'm a hole in the ground.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:04pm PT
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My own thoughts, before I had a child, usually envisioned walking off into the woods or mountains into a snowstorm, loving the beauty of the forest and the processes of nature. Eventually, I would grow weary and cold. Hypothermia would set it; I'd go to sleep, wake up once then drop into a final sleep.
Most of my friends that have passed on recently have died with loving friends and family all around them. That path has lots of appeal as well.
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DanaB
climber
Philadelphia
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:07pm PT
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there really is no bad way to die.
No, that's not true.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:27pm PT
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tripping on some quality el es dee, flying a spaceship into a black hole, sounds fun.
When my mom passed from she was at home with her family in the hills of VA, I was sixteen. Didn't make me believe in God, but it did make be realize people have spirits and souls. Was a real tragedy, but at the same time, was a very real experience.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:28pm PT
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Bring it, Death! Do yer worst.
It really IS all good.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:39pm PT
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The Great Santini
Micheal O'Keefe (Ben Meechum):
"Would you like to die in action, Dad?"
Robert Duvall (Bull Meechum):
"It's better than dying of piles!"
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bentelbow
climber
spud state
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:41pm PT
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Shot in the back of the head when I'm 90, caught doing some guys 19 year daughter.
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neversummer
Mountain climber
perris, cali
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Dec 21, 2010 - 04:46pm PT
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tripping on some quality el es dee, flying a spaceship into a black hole, sounds fun.
....set the controls for the heart of the sun
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
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Dec 21, 2010 - 05:17pm PT
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neversummer, you nailed it. I was thinking 'echoes' personally...
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Dec 21, 2010 - 05:46pm PT
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"I just want my family to be by my side so I can tell them one last time how much I love them before I am off to the next phase."
Make it real fun - pick one out and have them come close to you...reach out with your withered finger...touch them lightly on the face...then scream "Last Tag" and die cackling hysterically.
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Dec 21, 2010 - 07:23pm PT
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The best way to die is up to your neck in pussy and die from a heart attack!
Or do you mean the best to kill yourself ?
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 21, 2010 - 07:48pm PT
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Doing what you love, or with the People you love (and that love you). Never rush to it, but embrace it when it comes
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 21, 2010 - 09:00pm PT
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Oh Very Young - Cat Stevens
Oh very young
What will you leave us this time
You're only dancing on this earth
For a short while
And though your dreams may toss
And turn you now.
They will vanish away -
Like your Daddy's best jeans
Denim blue fading up to the sky
And though you want him to last.
Forever you know he never will
(You know he never will)
And the patches
Make the goodbye harder still.
Oh very young
What will you leave us this time
There'll never be a better chance
To change your mind
And if you want this world
To see (a better day)
Will you carry
The words of love with you
Will you ride
The great white bird into heaven
And though you want to last.
Forever you know you never will
(You know you never will)
And the goodbye
Makes the journey harder still.
Oh very young
What will you leave us this time
You're only dancing on this earth
For a short while
Oh very young
What will you leave us this time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_eUnxDE8YY
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Dec 21, 2010 - 09:05pm PT
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Approaching 40, I contemplate mortality more and more. its kind of unsettling. someone sugested the tibetan book of the dead..the journey into the bardo.
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bestill
Trad climber
s. ca.
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Dec 21, 2010 - 09:06pm PT
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Love flies in on wings of lace/colors our faces warm,relaxed/weaving its way into our hearts on a breath/a sigh we embrace/a hug when times are tough/a lantern at life's end
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nevahpopsoff
Boulder climber
the woods
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Dec 21, 2010 - 10:29pm PT
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" The dead only know one thing, it is better to be alive".
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