David Bowie Taught Us How to Die | Michael Kindt
David Bowie was beautiful in life and death, but perhaps especially in death.
I’d like to think so, dying myself at some point. He knew he was going to die for 18 months, a year and a half, and he kept working on what would be his last album, which turns out to be about death, and brilliant to boot.
How will you die? Curled up in a fetal position saying, “NO NO NO”, or with the grace and class of Bowie?
It’s no secret that we live in a youth-dominated culture, but all youth fades. Death is weird to us, in this youth-culture, even though it is perfectly natural and going to happen to everyone. We have made it weird.
Mr. Bowie had previous knowledge of his death. Imagine: knowing that you’re going to die. What would you do? Say you had 18 months like Bowie. How different would you be?
Michael Kindt lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He has determined to die there. Soon, probably.
Posted the full text earlier, but here it is again…
