This denial of death hits close to home. My dear wife expresses intense dislike of death & the dead. She has stated on several occasions that she does not want an open casket funeral. She cringes at the idea of people seeing her deceased form. Sadly, this distaste kept her from approaching her mother's casket prior to its closing before the funeral service. I, on the other hand, do not share that dread of death. For 11 years I was part of the Greek Orthodox church. The Orthodox do not shy away from death. At a funeral I attended, as part of an Orthodox community, all parishioners processed past the open casket so as to view the body. That body is seen as an Icon, an image pointing to Christ. It was a moving moment as it reminds me now that each person I see, like the Icons in an Orthodox church, is an image intended to remind me of Christ's presence – here & now.
As a therapist who often works with shoulder injuries or post-op shoulder surgeries, you have now made it impossible for me to say Trapezius without having to hold back a guffaw. 🤣
I would think Hippocrates must have looked at pain as something wrong. Perhaps, he was first to realize that pain is telling the body of that very fact, so you can get attention and, perhaps, care for it.
Perhaps it’s we are the battern that carries its the substance of soul like a leaf on a tree that falls to the ground that become the soil resurrection . Taking your turn in every spiritual experience along the way playing a part in created relationship
This denial of death hits close to home. My dear wife expresses intense dislike of death & the dead. She has stated on several occasions that she does not want an open casket funeral. She cringes at the idea of people seeing her deceased form. Sadly, this distaste kept her from approaching her mother's casket prior to its closing before the funeral service. I, on the other hand, do not share that dread of death. For 11 years I was part of the Greek Orthodox church. The Orthodox do not shy away from death. At a funeral I attended, as part of an Orthodox community, all parishioners processed past the open casket so as to view the body. That body is seen as an Icon, an image pointing to Christ. It was a moving moment as it reminds me now that each person I see, like the Icons in an Orthodox church, is an image intended to remind me of Christ's presence – here & now.
As a therapist who often works with shoulder injuries or post-op shoulder surgeries, you have now made it impossible for me to say Trapezius without having to hold back a guffaw. 🤣
I don't fear death so much as suffering. Which obscure philosopher thought that idea before me?
I would think Hippocrates must have looked at pain as something wrong. Perhaps, he was first to realize that pain is telling the body of that very fact, so you can get attention and, perhaps, care for it.
Just a random, Hippocratic thought. ☺️
"Pain is weakness leaving the body" as I had shouted at me many times when I was younger.
let’s play another round of Obscure Philosophers Bingo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OItP8-_mjXw
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Perhaps it’s we are the battern that carries its the substance of soul like a leaf on a tree that falls to the ground that become the soil resurrection . Taking your turn in every spiritual experience along the way playing a part in created relationship