by Barbara Stiles

Created on: October 19, 2008

Death has always been a word that brings up thoughts of fear and sadness. Everyone has to meet the Reaper at some point or another. Its inevitable. Death also comes in many forms and holds no prejudice to age or power, so we are left as humans wondering when our time will come. We have all lost people close to us, we've all felt that pain and emptiness of burying our loved ones, and if it hasn't happened yet it will. So what more can be said?

Death has become more familiar to me in the past years. I'm in my early 20's and I've lost friends to suicide, some to tragic accidents. I've almost lost my own life in an accident a year ago. I recall being stuck in my car, underwater, actually deciding whether I should even bother saving myself or just let go right there. After breaking out of the car, swimming to the embankment and climbling my way up through the mud and rock to the road, I could only sit there in the road, shaken, shocked, wondering how I even got out of that mess, but at the same time still feeling that lingering presence of death. It was gone the moment I was back in the arms of my fiance who was also shaken having almost lost me. It occured to me then, just how powerful love can be. It also occurred to me that one day death will separate us, and the cold feeling came back..then I became an obsessor of death. There can be nothing more painful than losing your true love and because it is inevitable, how was that painful sadness ever going to go away? I realized I was spending more time worrying about death than enjoying the life I'm living and the fact that the person I love ISN'T dead. The thought is still there but it doesn't haunt me constantly.

I bought a book, in my obsessive thinking. Its was about necromancy. To enlighten any, necromancy is a method of divination through commiunications with the dead. The book gave methods of connecting with Death's energies, such as spending a night in a graveyard, then spending a night in a tomb with a corpse (no physical intimacy of course). These tasks are truly hard to accomplish unless your backyard is a cemetary or you know the cops personally. There was one method that truly changed my perspective on Death. The difficult part for some will be to see Death as an actual entity. We all have our own iconic view of death, but rarely is it taken seriously as the world changes and science becomes the ultimate truth. If you can envision Death as an entity, imagine seeing people, young and old, begging to be

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