Im A Tired Witch

hello walkerbetweenthestars. I already saw your comment as well cause blocking me doesn't prevent me from seeing past notifications plus your comment is still there saying this exact thing. I also see that you like to harass anyone who uses the terms death positivity and order of the good death so what a great way for me to segway into talking about exactly that, not for you but for the people that actually follow blogs because they like them.

Death is a reality that we all must face at some point in our lives, often more than once. Now, I'm from the USA, a place where our death practices have been severely broken down over the past 100 years. Death has been pushed aside and ignored except for when it comes to taking money from those who are actively grieving. We're expected to pick ourselves up from our bootstraps (an impossible) and be done grieving in a matter of days but that's not adequate. Grief is complex and we should be allowed to go through it cause even though the world keeps turning, that loss has frozen the individuals world in place and they now have to figure out how to navigate it differently.

The concept of death positivity doesn't mean a lack of fear surrounding death but instead an acceptance that death is a part of life. We're all heading towards the eventual end of our mortality, something that makes life that much more important. To live well is to die well, you can not have life without death and you cannot have death without life. Working through our cultures dismissal of such a key process of life, the end of life, allows us to look at how we view death and how we can brace ourselves against the cold chill of reality. That end isn't always clean and neat, and life is unpredictable, so working through these complex feelings can help us be more at peace with death, especially when it's our turn to leave.

I've barely touched the surface of death in American society and death positivity, but I'd be more than happy to talk even more on such topics, especially because of how dysfunctional death culture is here.

At the end of the day, we should be supporting each other through these hard times. This place really sucks and we shouldn't be tearing down others who are learning to navigate a world after loss without support from society as a whole.

i'm so capable of appropriate social interaction.

i am a functional member of society.

💚 Moss appreciation 💚