Response on Linkletter

sktrbrain has left a new comment on  "Need a New Art Linkletter Show":

Interesting how we always look to children for guidance nearly as much as they look to us. The areas of taboo have yet to be delineated and so the candid little cherubs are free to run amok. Not so for us -- us aged individuals.
I wonder what is the reluctance (or the flat out aphasia) that arises when an older family member confronts one on the subject (or a subject related to) his or her impeding death. Not necessarily what it stems from, but what it is. It's not as if anyone (hopefully not) believes that by speaking on such a matter the death will come at once, that there open unfettered acceptance of a loved one's eventual death will pave the way for such an event. ...Or maybe they do! There's a popular phrase "don't jinx it" that I have encountered many times in my life. One might be surprised by how many people mean that phase when they say it. Perhaps the reluctance in speaking on such things as you've described above is a result of people not wanting to feel attached to someone's death, better said, to not feel implicated -- as funny as that might sound.





Posted by sktrbrain to Playing in the last quarter at September 28, 2012 4:22 AM