Ours is the fury » geotrandensce http://www.oursisthefury.com Notes from a rogue elitist. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:36:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The devils own http://www.oursisthefury.com/2009/the-devils-own/ http://www.oursisthefury.com/2009/the-devils-own/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:53:03 +0000 Alec Leamas http://www.oursisthefury.com/?p=347 I remember a psychology column where a young girl asked the editor what she could do to help her 91-year old grandmother in the final stages of her life. Her granny had become ethereal, incoherent and calm. The young girl was at a loss towards the old womans complacency. The editor responded that it was her belief that the old lady in question was indeed preparing herself to die and had entered a state that she referred to as “geotranscendant”.

Geotranscendance, she continued, is supposed to be a form of acceptance of the process of dying – often manifesting itself towards the end of someones life as the person in question shuns the world and comes to terms with those that have died before him or her. Often, the subject will talk of long gone relatives, mothers, fathers etc.

It struck me as a very obnoxious way of dying. Fuck that, I thought. When my time comes, the devil better be dragging me backwards, kicking and screaming all the 5000 miles into hell. I shall not go willingly. I shall not submit to the vile mechanics of biology, injecting me with hormones, making me docile and otherworldly, accepting the matter at hand. Die as you live. Presently.

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