Does anyone else find it strange that we can listen to the voices of dead people, and watch them on screens? One day I will be dead, and this blog will be lost among the billions of personal webpages nobody reads.
"This is my voice," I say, and press
Publish.
in class once (i can't remember the story we were reading), Trussler said, "a photograph of you will survive you."
ReplyDeletei don't know if those were his words or someone else's, but it bothered me. i've looked at so many photos of people who are dead, ive read letters. i one, a twenty-five year old woman wrote to her family, "i'm so excited for you to come visit at christmas!" and then died two weeks later, at the beginning of october. she was blissfully unaware.
i don't want to say that i want someone to burn every photo of me when i'm dead, because i don't. i know from experience that sometimes without the photo, you forget what people look like. without video, you lose their voice. what is natural and what technology now offers, (and what we long for to fill that dead space) make this all very complicated. should we let the dead be lost?
to be honest, that's probably impossible at this point. when we die, we are sure to remain in the scatters of blog posts, videos, photographs, tweets, text messages, emails, and google search results. but seriously, if i could have one request-- spare me the wall-posts to the afterlife, and delete my stupid facebook account.