this is all true. everyone misses my papers, apparently, so it's no big.
i was thinking that the longer lifespan of the average person might be the start of the idea that death can be got around... previously, death was everywhere, what with disease and injury and childbirth and so on, so it was innevitable, the natural thing. now, with cures and medicine and stuff, people who wouldn't have lived before continue to live and things that were unstoppable are now prevatable, and everyone everywhere is living longer, so death is more of an inconveniance, something that can be handled and moved beyond and negotiated with. but, it's still a fear, still something down there in the subconscious where all this stuff comes from to begin with, so it still requires dealing with and it's still one of the main drives of the genre...
but you know, the idea is pervasive, too. when i'm writing, i try to NOT give in to the deathwish that i feel there all the time, and it makes for interresting writing, let me tell you!
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Date: 2008-05-20 09:43 pm (UTC)i was thinking that the longer lifespan of the average person might be the start of the idea that death can be got around... previously, death was everywhere, what with disease and injury and childbirth and so on, so it was innevitable, the natural thing. now, with cures and medicine and stuff, people who wouldn't have lived before continue to live and things that were unstoppable are now prevatable, and everyone everywhere is living longer, so death is more of an inconveniance, something that can be handled and moved beyond and negotiated with. but, it's still a fear, still something down there in the subconscious where all this stuff comes from to begin with, so it still requires dealing with and it's still one of the main drives of the genre...
but you know, the idea is pervasive, too. when i'm writing, i try to NOT give in to the deathwish that i feel there all the time, and it makes for interresting writing, let me tell you!
~;)