Death

[Sniper-T]

Cat shit crazy?

[eagle326]

Cat shit crazy?

Good thing that I'm the sane one among this group. Don't worry youngins' ; just follow me.
Okay where's my map? Ah Hell I don't need no stinkin' map. Wet finger to the wind direction and we're on our way.

[mitunnelrat]

Some stranger read this and take us all for bat shit crazy. OTOH maybe we are.

You know... I don't much worry about that anymore. Just look at what the majority of society does, and do the opposite to live well.
I'd follow Eagle's wind reckoning before most peoples "dead" reckoning.

In all honesty (because I'm drunk and roughly incapable of lying, as a poor - sober - liar). I have a high regard for the lives of good people, and no regard for evil. I see the same values throughout the colony. We will put time and energy into that which we value. The rest I will only speak for myself, and it is beneath me.

[Sniper-T]

roll on highways... roll on along...

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on (roll on)

Well it's Monday morning, he's kissin' momma goodbye
He's up and gone with the sun
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And he's off on a midwest run
As three sad faces gather 'round momma
They ask her when daddy's comin' home
Daddy drives an eighteen-wheeler
And they sure miss him when he's gone (yeah they do)

Ah, but he calls them every night and he tells them that he loves them
He taught them this song to sing

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler, roll on (roll on)

Well it's Wednesday evening, momma's waitin' by the phone
It rings but it's not his voice
Seems the highway patrol has found a jack-knifed rig
In a snow bank in Illinois

But the driver was missin' and the search had been abandoned
For the weather had everything stalled
And they had checked all the houses and the local motels
When they had some more news they'd call
And she told them when they found him to tell him that she loved him
And she hung up the phone singin'

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler roll on

Momma and the children will be waiting up all night long
Thinkin' nothing but the worst is comin'
With the ringin' of the telephone
Oh, but the man upstairs was listening
When momma asked him to bring daddy home
And when the call came in it was daddy on the other end
Askin' her if she had been singin' the song, singin'

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler

Roll on highway, roll on along
Roll on daddy till you get back home
Roll on family, roll on crew
Roll on momma like I asked you to do
And roll on eighteen-wheeler, roll on (roll on)

Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Eighteen-wheeler
Roll on
Roll on
Roll on
Roll on

[Stormfeather]

Shit... you cowards dont want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane with that man, I sure as hell will! Hell, he can be dead cold, and I will push him out of the plane or better yet... tandem his ass... Imagine the reception ya get when ya land!

WTF?!?!? He was alive when we jumped out the damn door... Who's got dibs on his boots?

[Stormfeather]

But, as for the whole topic of death overall, like the others here, I carry a few brothers with me at all times. Its my spiritual fireteam. Ive plugged more wounds, told more lies to people about they would make it and would be fine, and folded enough flags to last me a lifetime. On the other hand, Ive stacked enough EC's to make Auschwitz look like disneyland it seems like to me at times, and none of the guys passed happily or cleanly.
Death is just that, a lack of life. I treat it no differently than I would cutting up a chicken for the grill. The primary difference, those I know get a level of respect in death, that those I dont know, well.... wont get.

[Gunfixr]

Dont worry about shitting yourself before jumping, most shit themselves at the point of death anyway, so no one will know.
We all live until we all die. None of us is ever promised another day. I have seen my death comin fast, with nothing i could do about it, accepted it, but it didnt happen. I have layed upon my deathbed, minutes from death, totally miserable, and accepted it, before coming back. That second time was almost 18yrs ago now.

Death smiles at us all, he knows, in the end, he wins. About all a man can do is smile back.

And take care of the remains.