I was ruminating & was struck by

[spacelady]

the coincidence that Hunter S. Thompson died on my 43rd birthday & how things just don't feel the same. Perhaps it is Just me?

[Dave Reynolds]

1. Ruminate too much,

and you may go blind or crazy.

:bounce:

[spacelady]

3. Yeah, I need to cogitate on that. n/t

[Tom Kitten]

2. I don't know...

did you feel his spirit merging with yours on some level?

[spacelady]

4. something weird did happen, I was not myself for days

not that there's anything wrong with that.


I'm being somewhat flip now, but I really was affected & uneasy.

[Tom Kitten]

7. oh I wouldn't worry about it then

I was upset for a few days when I found out John Candy died, for example.

Somebody you like dies suddenly and/or traumatically, there is bound to be a reaction to your psyche proportional in intensity to your admiration and feelings for him or her.

It's natural.

When my best friend from college died when he was 25, I was in shock for five days until his funeral. He was epileptic and lived alone, apparantly he had a grand mal seizure one night and asphixiated. The night of the wake I had a dream and I found myself on a trail in a radiant field of orange and yellow flowers...I looked ahead and saw my recently departed friend ahead, along with a couple of other unknown figures (fellow travellers?), waving to me, in his patent black jacket, only it was glowing an ultra effervescent violet now, and his normally pale face was glowing with a healthy golden robustness...he seemed really happy to me, with was reassuring because he was so unhappy having grand mal seizures all the time (it started when he was 21 after a car wrecK) and having to take phenobarbitol all the time. I was glad to see him, it was like a reassuring farewell that he was gone , but that it was ok...

I believe this kind of stuff happens all the time, it's just part of life.

[spacelady]

8. Yes, thanks for your thoughts, I think you are

right for the majority of sudden deaths--that dream IS comforting.
some, though seem to make an impact out of proportion to a
relationship--like when a legend dies.

edited to say: I just restated your first sentences, because I am an inattentive reader.

[Redstone]

5. Just a coincidence. Don't let it eat you up.

Redstone

[spacelady]

6. Thanks Redstone, you are probably right, I mean correct. n /t