Saturday 26 April 2008

DEATH

Someone dieing is a reminder that impossible things happen.

2 comments:

kate said...

Susan dieing is 100% possible we all know that its going to happen. No one is immortal.

Susan Harwood said...

I know.

Of course.

But death never seems 'quite right' to me.

This post was inspired by the death of Humphrey Lyttelton.

I only knew him from his radio programmes - but his lively mind and wit simply kept going - right into old age.

Now, he is vanished.

There are other people - like Derek Nimmo - who were so much part of 'How things are' - it doesn't make sense that they aren't any more - at least, in any accessible way.

I noticed something at my father's funeral that I thought would interest him.

My immediate reaction was that I should tell him about it later.

I still want to tell him things about his death and his funeral - and it just doesn't make sense that he isn't there to 'tell'.

This is what I mean by the 'impossible'. I'm not meaning that I don't know it happens. Nor is it anything to do with whether or not we fear it - but I can't quite 'believe' it.

It is 'impossible'.

And the fact that this 'impossible' thing happens (so very obviously) - emphasises (for me) that other, equally impossible things may happen too.

Susan