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DIFFERENT TAKE ON LIFE AND DEATH:
they don't think of death as a metaphysical mystery,
and they certainly don't view death as the source of life's meaning.
Rather, for modern people death is a technical problem that we can & should solve.
How exactly do humans die? Medieval fairy tales depicted Death as a figure in a hooded black cloak,
his hand gripping a large scythe. A man lives his life, worrying about this and that, running here and there,
when suddenly this Grim Reaper appears before him, taps him on the shoulder with a bony finger & says,
'COME!' And the man implores: 'NO, PLEASE! WAIT JUST A YEAR, A MONTH, A DAY!' But the hooded figure
hisses: 'NO! You MUST COME NOW!' And this is how we die.
In reality, however, humans don't die because a figure in a black cloak taps him on the shoulder, or because
"g d" decreed it, or because mortality is an essential part of some great cosmic plan. Humans always die due
to some technical glitch. The heart stops pumping blood. The main artery is clogged by fatty deposits. Cance-
rous cells spread in the liver. Germs multiply in the lungs. What is responsible for all these technical problems?
OTHER TECHNICAL PROBLEMS! The heart stops pumping blood because not enough oxygen reaches the heart
muscle. Cancerous cells spread because a chance genetic mutation rewrote their instructions. Germs settled in
my lungs because somebody sneezed on the subway. Nothing metaphysical about it? No, they are all technical
problems: & every technical problem has a technical solution! Mòr ziet daarbij Erika/Junne in '42 ÈN woensdag
13 december '44, kamp Vledder, kamp Westerbork èn al die andere honderden kampen met ÈN zonder het prikkel-
draad, mijnenvelden, bewakers, wachttorens, zwarte knielaarzen onder uniformpofbroeken, doodskoppetten & de Raymond
"DE TURK" Westerlingen, JP COEN, generaal van Heutsz, Soekarno/Soeharto, Daisy Kabouterse, Ronny Brunswijk, Marco Kroon eva.
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