Category: Death

Landing…

by Bob Adamcik | Nov 22, 2022 | Age, Death, Friends, Notes | 0 |

My friend finally came to Earth on November 12, 2022. One hundred years old plus six months.

There are moments that make being human worthwhile…

by Bob Adamcik | Oct 8, 2022 | Contentment, Death, Human Nature, Meaning, Notes, Other people | 0 |

…like tonight, sharing a bottle of 18-year-old Scotch with four good friends. When I’m gone, I’d like to think that this will be one of their memories of me.

I can’t imagine he’s alive now…

by Bob Adamcik | Jun 24, 2022 | Death, Mortality, Notes, Time | 0 |

Thinking about friends and near friends, and a few who never would have become friends. But time goes by for them all, just the same. .

Heading earthward…

by Bob Adamcik | Apr 2, 2022 | Death, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Self-image, The self, Time | 0 |

I have an old friend (old as in I’ve known him for forty-four years, and old as in he turned one hundred six weeks ago). We met in 1978 and have been close since, though he is thirty years my senior. When he was my current...

When I lived in Chile…

by Bob Adamcik | Mar 23, 2022 | Contentment, Death, Mortality, Notes, Time | 0 |

When I lived in Chile in the late 70’s… …there was a constant string of processions to the cemetery in winter. Poorly heated houses, old people, mediocre medical facilities. Colds and flu and pneumonia in the...

Thinking about death at the moment…

by Bob Adamcik | Jan 27, 2022 | Admin, Death, Happiness, Human Nature, Mortality, Significance, The self | 0 |

…and also birth, the two truly existential experiences in the life of each of us. Existential, in fact, by definition. Interesting that we obsess about the end of our existence, yet seldom give its beginning a second...

To everything a season…

by Bob Adamcik | Sep 18, 2021 | Blog, Death, Modern culture, Notes, Society | 1 |

For a few days on my current road trip, I stayed in the house of a friend in DC while she was away. It was an older house, born in the early fifties, same as me. The upkeep had been gradually overwhelming her…yard...

Gone and yes, forgotten…

by Bob Adamcik | Nov 11, 2019 | Death, History, Human Nature, Meaning, Mortality, Notes, Significance | 2 |

I read of the recent discovery of a Bronze Age battlefield in northeastern Germany, in a narrow valley of the Tollense River. Meeting at the site of an ancient bridge, hundreds or even thousands of men fought and killed one...

Reflecting on John McCain…

by Bob Adamcik | Aug 25, 2018 | Death, Human Nature, Mortality, Notes, Search | 0 |

The one thing we all agree on is the finality of death… .

I can listen to arguments all day long…

by Bob Adamcik | May 15, 2018 | Belief, Death, Mortality, Notes, Search | 1 |

…but they don’t change a thing. The idea of dying makes me sad for simple pleasures I will no longer have. Yes, I’ve heard it: “No brain, no memories.” But I hope my own brain ticks along until it...

The Dollhouse…

by Bob Adamcik | Mar 22, 2018 | Belief, Blog, Death, Mortality, Notes, Reality, Religion, Search | 4 |

So last Sunday, my neighbor sat down with his morning paper and never got up. They found him hours later, but from his new perspective, it could have been light years. He had been a neighborhood fixture, one of those guys that...

Review of “Straw Dogs: Thoughts on humans and other animals,” by John Gray

by Bob Adamcik | Dec 13, 2017 | Belief, Book Review, Death, Human Nature, Meaning, Notes, Reality, Search, Significance | 4 |

“Other animals do not need a purpose in life. A contradiction to itself, the human animal cannot do without one. Can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?” (–John Gray, in “Straw Dogs:...

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