Posts Tagged ‘ death ’

Birth Announcements, How Ironic

November 2, 2010
By Bing

Life gives unexpected twists and turns.  While everyone is commemorating the day of the dead, birth announcements are all over.  It is as if there is always a tug of war between creation and termination. With the advent of cards, including electronic ones, well wishes or words of sympathy are conveyed easily.  How ironic that with technology thoughts on birth and death are also similarly communicated. Beginnings are nothing but a reminder of endings. ...

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November 1 Side Dishes

November 2, 2010
By Bing
November 1 Side Dishes

I am not going to talk about November 1. The stories are so common we can almost memorize them – how the traffic had intensified, how people prepare for the occasion, how to take care of self from criminals and accidents, etc. It is after all a celebration in a celebration. We celebrate or commemorate the day for the dead but also we celebrate life itself. We are there in each occasion of November...

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Would You Do it for Love?

June 13, 2010
By Bing
Would You Do it for Love?

I stumbled upon The Most Beautiful Death in StumbleUpon.  It is a letter from Letters of Note.  It is a letter by Laura, the wife of Aldous Huxley, a novelist, who was diagnosed with cancer in 1960.  Laura was asked by Aldous to administer him with LSD* while he was passing away. I felt for Laura during the times she had witnessed her husband’s ordeal.  Who would not be bothered seeing your husband agitated...

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Aling Baby’s grandchild died: a case of SIDS

March 14, 2010
By Bing

You might be wondering who Aling Baby is.  She is that little woman in her midlife who irons our clothes every Sunday.  And yes, her grandchild died last week.  The little angel was not even a month old. I felt sad for her and for her daughter.  Life’s challenges can be very cruel at times. Aling Baby said her daughter failed to burp the baby and milk intake from breastfeeding flooded the lungs.  It...

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“Goodbye, Nanay…”

February 12, 2010
By Bing

Yesterday was Nanay’s cremation.  While others watch the process from a seemingly window-like opening while her body was being transferred to the oven, I chose not to watch. I want to remember her as she is when she was still a jolly, alive and able-bodied figure though the last memories were really painful, especially to Papsie.  My daughter even erased her photos on the coffin in our camera when a relative borrowed it and...

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Death Wish

February 5, 2010
By Bing

Here’s a situation: A sickly old woman wails every time she moves.  Being heavy-built, the moving and walking efforts cause her to gasp for air thus resulting to groans.  She said she just wants to moan to ease the aches and pains. One day, the wailing becomes more louder, more frequent, more untimely.  Still, she does not want to be brought to the hospital.  She is in real pain and she is not aware...

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What if you have cancer?

January 14, 2010
By Bing

Age is concurrently making itself felt and as it advances, we all feel aches and uneasiness, feelings of bloating, or weakening.  I have to admit that lately I start to feel them all.  Add to the fact that I am with two ailing individuals, my mother-in-law and my husband.  The situation aggravates the smallest pain I feel. Sometimes if makes me think about having cancer.  Morbid as it sounds, the thought passes by sometimes,...

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A Different View

November 3, 2007
By Bing
A Different View

“Are there things true to all humans?” my son asked me before we went to the cemetery. “What do you mean by that?” I asked. He continued by telling me that he wonders if there is a common factor that we all humans share. He told me that not everybody is wealthy or poor, not everybody is educated or uneducated, not everybody is happy or sad, etc. “Every human being is born, and everybody...

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