I read with interest about the world’s oldest man. As I get older and start to wonder at what point I am likely to wake up one morning to find myself dead, things like how old people are and why they are still alive is becoming a bit of an obsession. (more…)
Entries categorized as ‘death’
Ikea
March 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Ikea is a ‘Scandinavian’ self-assembly furniture shop. Well, it’s lots of shops. Huge shops. They are making an absolute fortune for the owners, because somehow they discovered how to tap into the female shopping gene.
Most Haunted – Most Hilarious
January 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment
As people get older the buffer between them and death gets thinner. A child’s first experience of death is usually great-grandparents. This leaves layers of ‘old people’ still there as a buffer between them and their own mortality. For most, when their grandparents come to the end of their lives, they are well on course shaping their own lives and still quite busy and mentally occupied. But by the time the last layer of the buffer, their parents, are shuttling off this mortal coil an internal siren is wailing inside. There’s nobody left. They are now at the top of the tree, the next in the firing line. (more…)
