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Side effect of dying

November 18, 2014
By kastarsky GOLD, Mequon, Wisconsin
kastarsky GOLD, Mequon, Wisconsin
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“Depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying,” (John Green, The Fault in Our Stars).
We never truly know at one moment in time we are going to die.
Three years? Three months? Three days?
I wish I could tell you the answer, and neither can anyone else.

You see, dying is in the category of “The Unknown”
Particularly, a category I do not like at all.
In fact, who would like unknown?
There’s no rhyme or reason to it.
Which, quite frankly sucks.

We could potentially die of so many things:
being shriveled to death by cancer,
paranoid to death by suicide, or
randomized to death by being hit by a bus.

Who knows? I can’t tell you.

Death.
No one wants to embark it,
No one can embrace it.
I know I won’t ev



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