I'm afraid not many deaths are heroic. A few legendary Greeks and Icelanders come to mind, and of course the pilots of the planes that toppled the towers of New Ilium, but otherwise death is usually a Grit-your-teeth-and-bear-it business.
And why not blunt the sharpness of grief ? The blunter the better.
Accepted death is generally less than heroic. If grief is blunted to point where the grieving person does not know what the sense of loss was that they went through then they get into a 'lifestyle' place where they might 'heal', or learn, if they allow themselves the hurt, but they disallow both choices.
I'm afraid not many deaths are heroic. A few legendary Greeks and Icelanders come to mind, and of course the pilots of the planes that toppled the towers of New Ilium, but otherwise death is usually a Grit-your-teeth-and-bear-it business.
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Accepted death is generally less than heroic. If grief is blunted to point where the grieving person does not know what the sense of loss was that they went through then they get into a 'lifestyle' place where they might 'heal', or learn, if they allow themselves the hurt, but they disallow both choices.
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