Trying to find a way to justify my listening to this song to my parents. Specifically the suicide line. I know the meaning of the song is everyone dies in the end so might as well live in the present, but my parents saw the line as making suicide okay to do ( which it isn't because I have been down that road already). Anyone have a way to justify that line to their parents?

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Here goes the biggest chapter I've posted yet. Thank you all for waiting. I've got a trio of chapters in here that work as a single arc that I'm calling "Memento Mori," (which you can read about as a concept in art/lit here), to avoid "part 1, part 2, part 3"-ing the way I did the prior 'related chapter' arcs.

I've combed it about a dozen times. I'm sure I'm missing a lot, have committed writing sins and errors aplenty, etc., but it has gotten to a point where I feel I'm finding fewer of them on re-reads and am counting on you to help me spot them so I can correct them. More aggressive, vigorous feedback would be more than welcome in the discord.

Data Dive (Part 1) happened a couple chapters back if you remember, and we're bringing back Data Officer Borzun who is on-board Space Station 13. Galatea Goshen is returning with the name 'Emperor,' and is as-yet unaware of the transpirings on the planet's surface below.

Data Dive II

Lieutenant Galatea Goshen enjoyed being the bearer of good news.

If it weren’t for low gravity and ceilings being such a hazardous mix, she’d be skipping down the tight corridors. As it was she couldn’t quite keep a spring from her step as she strode right past the locked security door, whose guard glared at the ‘ground pounder’ Marine. Of all planets to be ground pounding on, Earth was now widely considered to be the envy of all postings. The officer must have had serious frustrations being stuck up in orbit. The Lieutenant flashed her a cheeky grin and knocked on Data Officer Borzun’s door.

It slid upward to grant entry and Galatea couldn’t help but hop in, landing deftly on both feet.

“So, I take it you got some information about this mysterious bitch we’re after, or possibly their whole organization?”

“I do have some information on that, and some information on that ‘other’ part of our little agreement. But business first. I’ll have you know that it’s a bastard, actually, not a bitch. I also only have a code name, but I want to see where it gets us.”

Borzun was pretty sure she knew why Galatea was so happy as to be practically prancing about, but all she had was just a hunch and a clue, but no

I am re-bingeing Penny Dreadful and just watched Billie Piper’s 9-min monologue. She is raw power in this speech, and seeing her make her reveals (as well as establish where her character goes in Season 3) was outstanding. This part is truly one of my Top 5 moments of this series and I can’t praise her enough.

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Does anyone else find relief or comfort in the Idea of momento mori?

I find that remembering that I am going to die and that all my mistakes as well as achievements are going to be lost and forgotten to the world in a few years is hugely calming. It sort of takes the pressure off of my mind that my lifespan is not important and I am free to live in a way which I find virtuous without worrying about having to live it permanently.

The death of others is also comforting to me. Not that I find other's deaths good or that death makes me happy, it's just that it makes me happy to know we must all go through death, and everybody will receive respite from their lives regardless of how good or bad it is.

I think this might also come from the fact that I find immortality to be a terrifying idea. Anyone relate??

Edit: thank you for this incredible response as well as the awards! There are so many varieties in opinions on this - it has really changed my perspective. Thank you!

“Remember that we must all die sometime. There is no way to bring the dead person back. All your sorrow does him no good, and it hurts you. Don't forget that. You will die, just as he did. Today it was his turn; tomorrow it will be yours.”

Wisdom of Sirach 38:20-22

(Some background: this is not part of the Biblical canon of Protestant Christianity, but both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches have it as part of their Old Testament. A lot of these so-called “extra-canonical” books were canonized in cosmopolitan cities like Alexandria, and by Jews who in some form or another adopted Greek philosophy to convey their religious and/or metaphysical ideas.)