Yeah cos we're so much cooler when we filter out the fun and games. I'd bet anything that it was a pointlessly nitpicky Urkel type like you that inspired the invention of the wedgie.
Eventualy, you end your life dying. Face it, that's life. But what you're never told is you die *twice*, because save a handfull of really important people for their contribution to History (with capital 'H'), after 50 years everybody will totally forget you.
But if your exit is at least newsworthy there's still a slim chance it won't be forgotten in your own family. The grand father of my grand-grand father (5 generations above me) was the only one we knew by tradition before my mother did some genealogical research. All others above him, at his level, and some under him, were completely lost. But he was remembered because he died kicked by a horse in the head. Not especially funny, but newsworthy.
The Darwin winners of today will have their memories cherished *longer* by *many more people* than those dying a peaceful and natural death.
Think about it. Now, where's my axe, I have a barn to bring down.
I avoid it at all costs. That's what would be so horrible about it.
If Elton John died with a hand mixer in his anus, it wouldn't be news for long but if Matt Damon died with a gerbil in his, that would be earth shattering news.
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Even if it is a spectacular stupid way, it still is no reason to laugh at their corpse and go "Ha Ha!" nelson style.
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Eventualy, you end your life dying. Face it, that's life. But what you're never told is you die *twice*, because save a handfull of really important people for their contribution to History (with capital 'H'), after 50 years everybody will totally forget you.
But if your exit is at least newsworthy there's still a slim chance it won't be forgotten in your own family. The grand father of my grand-grand father (5 generations above me) was the only one we knew by tradition before my mother did some genealogical research. All others above him, at his level, and some under him, were completely lost. But he was remembered because he died kicked by a horse in the head. Not especially funny, but newsworthy.
The Darwin winners of today will have their memories cherished *longer* by *many more people* than those dying a peaceful and natural death.
Think about it. Now, where's my axe, I have a barn to bring down.
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LK
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Easy : quit putting things up there now ;-)
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I avoid it at all costs. That's what would be so horrible about it.
If Elton John died with a hand mixer in his anus, it wouldn't be news for long but if Matt Damon died with a gerbil in his, that would be earth shattering news.
LK
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So? It's our genes that scream for immortality. It doesn't mean that we should.