Death is an ultimate reality that must be faced in human life. Human resistance and fear of death are also an eternal topic. Dr. Mike, played by Bruce Willis, cannot accept the fact that even after his death—the same goes for all the ghosts that Cole sees—none of them can accept that they are dead, as Cole said: They don't even know that they are dead.
Perhaps learning to adapt to and accept death is a compulsory course for mature people. Maria Rilke said in "Brig's Essays" that if you have not heard the painful call sign by the side of the mother, if you have not been waiting by the dying person, you cannot experience a complete life. In another movie "The Green Mile", Tom Hanks and his team also made his prisoners learn and adapt to the death penalty in various adaptive exercises, so as to reduce their fear of death. It can be described as humane care until .
I went on a roller coaster a few days ago, this is the first time in my life. I won’t be sitting anymore—not because of fear, but because my eyes are highly nearsighted. Sitting too much is in danger of retinal detachment. When the roller coaster whizzes down from a 90° track at a speed close to free fall, it is the closest time to death. Perhaps the function of a horror movie is to let people experience the fear of imminent death spiritually, so as to relieve people of their unprovoked rejection of the dark and subtle world. Everyone must usher in such an ending-there is birth and death, so that life constitutes a complete period with beginning and end.
Before the age of 20, I often think that "love" and "death" are a pair of aesthetic existence. At that time, I was not afraid of death inexplicably—in fact, because I was still far away from death, and when I imagined something far away, I felt that it was mysterious. Because of mystery, beauty is the logic of that age.
I had a painless gastroscopy last year. I was injected with anesthetic before going to the examination bed-in just a few seconds, I felt unconscious, as if I came to a roaring train passing by, and I was hesitant to go up. It was not until I was pushed out of the examination room more than ten minutes later and my husband called me to wake up. I remembered that I had gone through a trip. If the amount of anesthetic was enough, no one could wake me up, let me sleep like this. Which train took me away in your dream?
Death is an extreme experience, and horror movies are a way of trying to get close to this experience. In 2007, a professor of literature and art in our college committed suicide by jumping off the tenth floor of the family building. At that time I was too young to really think about what it meant.
When Feng Zhi was in his 20s, he was once full of extreme fear and worries about death. This kind of fear and worry now seems very redundant and ridiculous-Feng Zhi passed away at the age of 84.
In the world of Xiangxi described by Shen Congwen, there is something that makes Shen Congwen very fascinated, and that is the calmness of Xiangxi people in the face of death. No matter how wild and cruel the world is, the calm attitude in the face of death is the complex that Shen Congwen has been unable to get out of-of course, perhaps this is just a literary imagination that combines part of the life experience.
The so-called "sixth sense" is something beyond the experience of most of us. Death is even more so, or in other words, it is transcendent. Fromm once said in "People for Oneself" that the fear of death cannot be relieved, but it comes from people's doubts about the meaning of life. If you live in a creative state, you will not be taken over by an irrational fear. Therefore, instead of worrying about death—how terrifying and gloomy the other shore is, it is better to cherish and love the world on this shore, live every day, and accomplish all the things you really love.
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