»
Main Forums
»
Passions in Prose
»
To Remember Me
| Passions in Prose |
|
To Remember Me |
|
|
hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA 
|
(This wasn't written by myself and I am giving the author full credit, but I had to share this kind of as a reply to Dream's Posting on the right to die and also Lucie's challange on how we wish to be remembered. This speaks more than my own words could ever say) To Remember Me The day will come when my body will lie upon a white sheet neatly tucked under four corners of a mattress located in a hospital busily occupied with the living and the dying. At a certain moment a doctor will determine that my brain has ceased to function and that, for all intents and purposes, my life has stopped. When that happens, do not attempt to instill artificial life into my body by the use of a machine. And don't call this my death bed. Let it be called the Bed of Life, and let my body be taken from it to help others lead fuller lives. Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby's face or the love in the eyes of a woman. Give my heart to a person whose own heart has caused nothing but endless days of pain. Give my blood to the teenager who was pulled from the wrekage of his car, so that he might live to see his grandchildren play. Give my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week. Take my bones, every muscle, every fiber and nerve in my body and find a way to make a crippled child walk. Explore every corner of my brain. Take my cells, if necessary, and let them grow so that someday, a speechless boy will shout at the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the soud of rain against her window. Burn what is left of me and scatter the ashes to the winds to help the flowers grow. If you must bury something, let it be my faults, my weaknesses and all prejudice against my fellow man. Give my sins to the devil. Give my soul to God. If, by chance, you wish to remember me, do it with a kind deed or word to someone who needs you. If you do all I have askes, I will live forever. ~Robert N. Test ------------------ Man can not discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. |
||
| © Copyright 1999 Ruth Kephart - All Rights Reserved | |||
|
Dragoness Senior Member
since 1999-08-07
Posts 513 |
Beautiful. ------------------ Set you heart free and your mind will follow. |
||
|
Christopher
Moderator
Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Beautiful sentiments which I echo completely. I want not to die, but rather to live on in others. I have a donor dot on the back of my liscense, and I volunteer anything that is useful. I hope to live a very long life, but in the event that it is cut short, I know that I would rather have someone benifit from my loss. Thank you for posting this Ruth. |
||
|
|
⇧ top of page ⇧ |
|
| All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format. | ||