Death

I want to see someone die.

This thought occurred to me today. I'm not being hyperbolic about someone I dislike; I just realized that although I've been to funerals (like the one I'm going to this weekend), I've never seen someone die. It seems to be one of the most important moments in a person's life. I'd like to see it sometime.

I was also thinking that death is fairly taboo in our society. As soon as we got over the sex hangup in the 1800's, we don't want to think or talk about death. Botox and Viagra are attempts to reverse aging and ignore the reality of death. Trevor has written on how we are obsessed with violence in the media, and I think that's because it deals with death.