From: Bill.McKinley@mailhost.dpie.gov.au
Date: Fri 07 Mar 1997 - 05:29:18 EET
Mail=2ALink=AE FWD=3EHumakti - deathbed scenes
=3EI had never thought of a Humakti being at a deathbed to comfort the dyin=
g=2E
It is quite an interesting thought=2C and a practice that I could see being=
quite popular in some regions=2E
There could even be Humakti who try to make the transition as painless as
possible =28and some might interpret this as Sever Spirit=21=29=2E
I have always thought that the way of the Humakti could be seen as being si=
milar to the way of the Samurai=2E I suspect then=2C that many Humakti woul=
d consider someone dying in bed to be weak and cowardly=2E
=22He only has one death=2C=22 a Humakti would say=2C=22he should die memor=
ably=2C with a fierce oath on his lips=2C in a way that will inspire his fa=
mily and ensure that he is remembered forever=2E =
=22Instead=2C he is dying in bed like the tradesman that he is=2E I will re=
mind him that Death comes to us all=2C but I cannot comfort him=2C because =
he is wasting his precious death in the same way that he wasted his preciou=
s life selling drygoods=2E=22
Bill McKinley
------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 13 Jun 2003 - 16:57:57 EEST