{"id":62461,"date":"2017-08-15T16:15:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62461"},"modified":"2017-08-15T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T21:35:45","slug":"in-a-new-yorker-article-on-dying-the-late-cory-taylor-says-so-much-if-you-are-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62461","title":{"rendered":"In a New Yorker Article on Dying, [the late] Cory Taylor says so much if you are listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I will not miss dying. It is by far the hardest thing I have ever done, and I will be glad when it\u2019s over&quot;: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m00qjXXLix\">https:\/\/t.co\/m00qjXXLix<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GZ6J7LHURA\">pic.twitter.com\/GZ6J7LHURA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The New Yorker (@NewYorker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewYorker\/status\/896521763814875136\">August 13, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No, I haven\u2019t become religious; that is, I haven\u2019t experienced a late conversion to a particular faith. If that means I\u2019m going straight to hell when I die, then so be it. One of my problems with religion has always been the idea that the righteous are saved and the rest are condemned. Isn\u2019t that the ultimate logic of religion\u2019s \u201cus\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d paradigm?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s a case of not missing what you have never had. I had no religious instruction growing up. I knew a few Bible stories from a brief period of attendance at Sunday school, but these seemed on a level with fairy tales, if less interesting. Their sanctimoniousness put me off. I preferred the darker tones of the Brothers Grimm, who presented a world where there was no redemption, where bad things happened for no reason, and nobody was punished. Even now I prefer that view of reality. I don\u2019t think God has a plan for us. I think we\u2019re a species with godlike pretensions but an animal nature, and that, of all of the animals that have ever walked the earth, we are by far the most dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/personal-history\/questions-for-me-about-dying\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I will not miss dying. It is by far the hardest thing I have ever done, and I will be glad when it\u2019s over&quot;: https:\/\/t.co\/m00qjXXLix pic.twitter.com\/GZ6J7LHURA &mdash; The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 13, 2017 No, I haven\u2019t become religious; that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62461\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,438,104,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-death-burial-funerals","category-health-medicine","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62464,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62461\/revisions\/62464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}