Death
 

It happens.

There used to be a brand of cigarettes here in the UK called Death. Great packaging, but they tasted like old socks. Surely Death should have a better flavour than that?

so does sex

Supposedly.

It seems like the most marketed thing, these days. Life is so unfashionable i've bought some.

original
O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
I'll open the door to heaven or hell
Whoa, death someone would pray
Could you wait to call me another day
The children prayed, the preacher preached
Time and mercy is out of your reach
I'll fix your feet til you cant walk
I'll lock your jaw til you cant talk
I'll close your eyes so you can't see
This very air, come and go with me
I'm death I come to take the soul
Leave the body and leave it cold
To draw up the flesh off of the frame
Dirt and worm both have a claim
O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
My mother came to my bed
Placed a cold towel upon my head
My head is warm my feet are cold
Death is a-movin upon my soul
Oh, death how you're treatin' me
You've close my eyes so I can't see
Well you're hurtin' my body
You make me cold
You run my life right outta my soul
Oh death please consider my age
Please don't take me at this stage
My wealth is all at your command
If you will move your icy hand
Oh the young, the rich or poor
Hunger like me you know
No wealth, no ruin, no silver no gold
Nothing satisfies me but your soul
O, death
O, death
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year


CVB cover
My name is Death and I excel
I can open the gates to Heaven or Hell
Cast aside the flesh of thee
Cast aside and set you free
Oh-oh Death, Oh-oh-oh Death,
Can't you spare me over till another year?
I lock their jaws so they can't talk,
Stiffen their legs so they can't walk
Close their eyes so they can't see
The chill you feel, it comes from me
Oh-oh Death, Oh-oh-oh Death,
Can't you spare me over till another year?
Oh Ma-ma mama come to my bed
Place a cold rag on my head
My eyes are achin', I cannot see
I feel the sheet pulling over me
Oh-oh Death, Oh-oh-oh Death,
Won't you spare me over till another year?

Napalm Death?

I'm not scared of death. I embraced it since i was born.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.--Woody Allen

atari 2600 - nice words. Where they be from?

The day you're born is the day you start dieing!

and i thought that life began at conception. o well...

He not busy being born is busy dying.--Bob Dylan

Camper Van Beethoven's Key Lime Pie album, I believe

Yeah, but the original trad version goes way back and kicks CVB's clever little asses.

"O Death" is a bluegrass standard by Ralph Stanley and The Stanley Brothers.
Camper Van Beethoven do a wonderful cover on their classic Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart album. They do a lot of wonderful covers.

Always a good one.
INT. BOOKSTORE-DAY

Annie and Alvy browsing in crowded bookstore. Alvy, carrying two books,
"Death and Western Thought" and "The Denial of Death", moves over to where
Annie is looking.

ALVY
Hey?

ANNIE
H'm?

ALVY
I-I-I'm gonna buy you these books, I
think, because I-I think you should
read them. You know, instead of that
cat book.

ANNIE
(Looking at the books Alvy
is holding)
That's, uh ...
(Laughing)
that's pretty serious stuff there.

ALVY
Yeah, 'cause I-I'm, you know, I'm,
I'm obsessed with-with, uh, with death,
I think. Big-

ANNIE
(Overlapping)
Yeah?

ALVY
-big subject with me, yeah.

ANNIE
Yeah?

They move over to the cashier line.

ALVY
(Gesturing)
I've a very pessimistic view of life.
You should know this about me if we're
gonna go out, you know. I-I-I feel that
life is-is divided up into the horrible
and the miserable.

ANNIE
M'hm.

ALVY
Those are the two categories ...

ANNIE
M'hm.

ALVY
... you know, they're- The-the horrible
would be like, uh, I don't know, terminal
cases, you know?

ANNIE
M'hm.

ALVY
And blind people, crippled ...

ANNIE
Yeah.

ALVY
I don't-don't know how they get through
life. It's amazing to me.

ANNIE
M'hm.

ALVY
You know, and the miserable is everyone
else. That's-that's all. So-so when
you go through life you should be thankful
that you're miserable, because that's-
You're very lucky ... to be ...
(Overlapping Annie's laughter)
... to be miserable.

ANNIE
U-huh.

I find death to be quite interesting really.

Thanks, A2600. I'll be checking those out at some point.

Why can't you say stuff about death that isn't written already? Wait, i know, because you're scared of it.