1. odditiesoflife:

    The Hanging Coffins of Sagada

    The people of Sagada in the Philippines follow a unique burial ritual. The elderly carve their own coffins out of hollowed logs. If they are too weak or ill, their families prepare their coffins instead. The dead are placed inside their coffins (sometimes breaking their bones in the process of fitting them in), and the coffins are brought to a cave for burial.

    Instead of being placed into the ground, the coffins are hung either inside the caves or on the face of the cliffs, near the hanging coffins of their ancestors. The Sagada people have been practicing such burials for over 2,000 years and some of the coffins are well over a century old.

    at first glance, i thought these were books

  2. I’m just going to post this here because…I don’t know.

    Car crash in the community where I work. One person dead. I taught the driver of the car, who turned himself in today, when he was a sophomore. I just found out it was him. I spent half an hour scrolling through Facebook and Twitter, trying to figure out who died.

    I just…need to process.

  3. "Patricia Highsmith said of herself, “I am always in love… .” Yet at her memorial service in Tegna, Switzerland, in 1995, there were no lovers from the past, and there was no lover to mourn her in the present. The service was filmed, which Highsmith would have liked, because although reclusive, she was interested in posterity. Such display also allowed Highsmith to hide in plain sight (as her hero Edgar Allan Poe put it in “The Purloined Letter”) the fact that all her relationships had failed. Highsmith had died in a hospital alone, and the last person to see her was her accountant. Highsmith was obsessed with taxes."
    Jeanette Winterson, “Patricia Highsmith, HIding in Plain Sight”
  4. charlattea: cognitive-absense: alesanadieslast: lickystickypickywe: your life. What a really great picture. Wow I tried solve it and there are dead ends everywhere are u asking us to solve a maze of immortality get real

    charlattea:

    cognitive-absense:

    alesanadieslast:

    lickystickypickywe:

    your life.

    What a really great picture.

    Wow

    I tried solve it and there are dead ends everywhere are u asking us to solve a maze of immortality get real

  5. "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this. No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page. It was appointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore. My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life’s end. In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?"
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, “The Night Shadows”
  6. Death and the Miser (detail), a Hieronymus Bosch painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

    Death and the Miser (detail), a Hieronymus Bosch painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

  7. breathtaking O_O breath taking breaking braking taking breathing breathtaking breath taking taking breaths take a breath take a beat beating breaking taking heart hearth home breathtaking stealing breathing breathe fire fire-breathing breathtaking resttaking resting king arresting phenomenal breathtaking breaktaking breakaching bric-a-brac breathtaking pause breathtaking no time for breath hair-raising breathtaking no pause breathtaking breathless gasping breathgiving immortal mortal cessation causation giving breath taking breath giving breath taking breath breathe in breathe out breathe in breathe out dying not dying oxygen air lack of air breathing lack of breathing lack of need necessity unnecessary necessity unnecessary necessity unnecessary breathing breathtaking taking breath breathtaking taking breath breath taking taking breath breath taking taking breath breathing taking breathing taking giving exhaling breathing taking breathtaking hold your br

  8. "I would suggest that even when these myths are hopeful, they are still reconciliations with thanatos, the death wish. It’s almost like we’d rather the world be destroyed, than for it to be as impersonal, as relentless, as it appears."

    Jay Michaelson at Religion Dispatches. Do We Have a Global Death Wish?

    Two recent scholarly works on millennialism leave this reviewer with a new understanding of the perverse human yearning for apocalypse

    (via protoslacker)

  9. "Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."
    Rumi
  10. tencentplague: Dream and Death by Neil Gaiman and and Mike Dringenberg

    tencentplague:

    Dream and Death by Neil Gaiman and and Mike Dringenberg

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