DEATH IS...

Death is something that usually alludes to something dark and cold, not something that is always placidly talked about.  Most people fear death because it is the conclusive thing of our lives.  Almost everyone wants to die with integrity.  Pretty much everyone who wants to die with integrity want to know how they die.  We unfortunately don't have Edward Bloom's advantage of being able to see how we die through a clairvoyant eye of a witch who lives in the middle of a swamp in rural Alabama.  Death is something that I fear. Not just for me, but for the people who I  will leave behind.  If I die today, how will my family take it? How will my friends take it? My teachers? My coaches?  My school?  How will I affect people when I finally go?  Will I have an exemplar y reputation or will I have a disreputable one? Those questions can't be answered until I'm gone and the people I leave behind me will have to answer them for me.  Death doesn't have to be about a person.  Death can be about a relationship or an athletic event.  Those kinds of deaths or any death at all can be potent and change your life for better or for worse.
Death is superficial. It can mean so much more than we talk it up to be.  Sure, it's the end of a life, but its also a beginning.  Death is merely the last stop on the itinerary of life.  It's the last stop on your trip abroad your last stop in Tuscany.  The celebration of death is an endemic to the Native Americans and many other cultures  The Native Americans believe that death is the passing on into the spirit world and you become a force of nature, a spirit of nature.They celebrate the passing into the spirit world because they believe that the spirits are still around, just not physically there.
Death is something that protrudes in our minds everyday.  We may not realize it, and we all don't think the same way, but we all either consciously or unconsciously think about death everyday.  Maybe that's why we have such a fear of death.  Especially when someone close to us dies, the person who tells us tries to put us down gently.  They gives us a pretext for their death and then tell us kindly, gently in their most soothing voice to try and ease our pain.  They think that our lives will be stark and unhappy now that this tragedy has occurred, but death is something that we can never truly fathom.  Death is something that is often misconstrued or it can be something that is placating.  It can be comforting to know that person is finally out of their pain, but it can be hard to bear the death of someone close to you.  
Okay so I have like a hundred hundred ten words to go and like three vocab words to go too.  So um yeah.  Maybe I should try and write like Neumann?  Like getting away with plagiarism or something?  I could try that.  Here we go:
So....um....I'm like supposed to be writing this blog post about Death.  This assignment is called Epic Blogging....and Bubbles. 
Not getting the bubbles part but that's okay, ya know?
so here Neumann would probably say something incredibly creative and funny with an explicit or two, but I'm just not feeling it, ya know man? Now to continue my Neumannicish essay thingy. 
So yeah whenever I think of death, I always think of these two dudes.
And these two dudes are in the hospital one's lying in the bed and the other guy is sitting in one of those really uncomfortable white plastic lawn chairs that have like the lattice work and stuff on it.
The guy in the bed is older, mid-fifties early sixties maybe. 
The guy in the chair is younger, possibly his son, nephew? Anyway he's about that age which would be I don't know twenties? Thirties?


Okay so now I'm up to like 670 words so I'm good.  Basically death can be guile or it can be gentle.  It really depends on your perspective.

Song:  If I Die Young by The Band Perry