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Joe
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DAREDEVILS, DEATH-DEFIERS, AND HEALTH
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
(Jane gave it to me yesterday afternoon: “Daredevils, Death-Defiers, and Health.”)
At first thought, it certainly seems as if people love life and fear death — that they seek pleasure and avoid pain.
Yet this is not always the case. There are people who must feel themselves to be at the brink of death before they can fully appreciate the quality of life. There are people who cannot appreciate or enjoy the satisfaction of life or of happiness unless faced simultaneously with the threat of death or intense pain.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
(4:22.) It should be noted before we begin that death itself is the delivery — a deliverer — of your species and all others. It is not negative in itself, but instead is the beginning of a different kind of positive existence. It prunes the planet, so to speak, so that there is a room and time for all, energy and food for all. Because of death, life is possible, so these two seemingly opposite qualities are simply different versions of the same phenomena.
If death disappeared on your planet even an hour all of life would soon be threatened. And if all life possible suddenly emerged at once, then most surely all would be annihilated. We must admit, then, that death is indeed a part of life — and even more, we must say that death is healthy.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]
(On March 6, 1984 I wrote this in the daily notes I make each day at the hospital: “This afternoon I described to Jane my dream last night about Joe Bumbalo. I dreamed he was taken very ill with heart trouble — that all he wanted to do was lay on his back in bed — I think in a trailer environment. His wife Margaret was there, and myself. I’m not sure if this meant Joe’s death or not, I told Jane.”
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