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(914 of 914)
May 12, 2007 11:05 AM
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Hundreds of people showed up last saturday to say goodbye to fallen Elyria Soldier, Sergeant Lane Tollett. A service was held in the Coliseum at Elyria Catholic High School before the 2 mile long procession left for Brookdale cemetery. Along the route people were lined up with flags and signs Thanking Sgt. Tollett for his service and sacrifice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vREjM44G6Vo
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(913 of 914)
Apr 20, 2007 7:06 PM
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Algshagger-
It said you're account doesn't accept messages. I figured I'd reply here.
Sorry if I came off self-righteous or anything. I just wanted to provide my interpretation of the show and how it relates to the bigger picture. I haven't read "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" but I think I understand the concept. It's human nature to disect or deconstruct things. Unfortunately I don't think we're equipped to deal with what happens next. We get sad, feel empty. Things that had meaning don't anymore. It can be depressing. But the other great part of being human is that conscious ability to be actively involved in your happiness. We can have perspective.
Maybe this is just a rant. In any case, I'm glad if anything I said made any sense at all.
Take it easy,
-Dave
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(912 of 914)
Apr 7, 2007 11:48 AM
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I cannot believe how obsessed about the show that I have become. The marathon was the hardest thing not to participate in. My husband thinks I am crazy for wanting to watch this show. It is so real, and facing death and loss is too close for comfort. I am of the age that death is closer than I choose to admit. I wish people in the US would talk more freely about this subject than we do. It is like religion, sex and politics. Very taboo. To have this show end is a pity. People need to be more educated in this area. Thank you for listening
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Apr 3, 2007 1:39 PM
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The final episode "They're All Waiting" affected me....no, make that disturbed me when I viewed it last night for the first time. No, I wasn't creeped-out by it, just profoundly awakened in some odd way. I couldn't stop thinking about it all night...kept me awake. I don't know if my mortality has set in, or just knowing that my parents are in their final years....and eventually siblings, and I will follow. Is it the profound loss I know I will suffer when they go...or seeing even my child suffering the loss of her grandparents sometime in the near future? I just don't know. The writers of this episode should be applauded....I take my hat off to them....I still can't stop thinking about what I saw last night.
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(910 of 914)
Mar 27, 2007 5:21 AM
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I think I have cried watching every single episode of the show. But it's a good thing! You have to keep in mind how fast your life can change. When watcing the show I'm constantly being reminded how lucky I am not to have lost any persons really close to me yet. But you are not the only one being scared! Believe me..!
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Mar 26, 2007 1:24 AM
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Very sorry to hear your bad news, BBear.
Keep prepping for your interviews. I guess it's best to keep busy. Hang in there. 
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"The end result can sometimes be better than the journey"
-Taoist saying re-thought
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(908 of 914)
Mar 25, 2007 11:53 AM
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> I am sorry, too, Bear. Good luck on the job. You
> can go
> see your mother later.
Thanks, Ianmine and Shee.
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STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT!!!
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Mar 25, 2007 10:06 AM
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I am sorry, too, Bear. Good luck on the job. You can go
see your mother later.
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Mar 25, 2007 9:11 AM
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My sympathies, Bear.....
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That's why I'm standin' on the edge of love baby,
Waitin' on your call
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Mar 25, 2007 7:29 AM
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We lost my stepdad a few minutes ago and I'm just numb. Between money issues and having a callback finally on a programming job I can't go down there. My mother understands how many months it's taken for a fifty year old programmer to find work in a backwoods market since my business folded but I still feel bad about it.
He was a man from an early age and lived hard. Lost a leg in Korea at an age where my biggest worry would have been my grades.
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Mar 6, 2007 8:11 PM
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Whoah whoah whoah there algshagger. Cheer up, buddy. No offense, but I really believe you missed the mark on this one. Claire lived A FULL life. She lived, loved, lost, loved and lived some more. While there certainly is some sadness to your loved ones dying before you, it is amazing to think she made it that long. A life well lived. Also, you can hardly know what your perspective will be when you are old and gray. You say with 100% certainty that you will be old and gray waiting to die on some bed. How is that so? The point of the show is you could go tomorrow. Even if you do, though, your life still has meaning.
Why do you think your life would mean nothing? What would give your life value? Living forever? Never dying? Being with your loved one's forever? If that's the case, then life is pretty damn depressing, because that's not the way things work.
I just don't think it has to be. The point of the show, IMO, is that we don't know when death comes. That's why you have to say your part HERE and NOW because death will shut you up quick. Also, I think the show means to bring value to life and solace to people for knowing that death is inescapable. It seems less daunting when you understand EVERYONE goes through it.
Think as you may, but you're not alone. Don't let the show drag you down. I know too many people who get depressed from it. I think you're thinking about it in the wrong terms.
Finally, no one knows (with ANY degree of certainty) what happens when we die. Religious folks will make their claims, as will atheists and nihilists. But here's the thing... and the only thing of importance: NO ONE KNOWS. You can certainly choose to believe what you wish, but you can make a choice to not believe something depressing. I'm not suggesting you pretend to believe in an afterlife... I would never support that type of self-dishonesty. What I AM saying, though, is that there is a way of confronting your mortality and the mystery of death without feeling sad.
Lame as it is, here's a prominent quote from the founder of the university I go to. Good words to [try to] live by:
"Do all the good you can,
by all the means you can,
At all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can."
You try to do that and I promise you won't be sitting there thinking it was all worth nothing.
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Mar 6, 2007 11:30 AM
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I know how you feel. I watched it Sunday and it was the most heartbreaking thing in a long time.For me the deat of Keith was horrible and specially the way he died and also have David live so many years without Keith. It was beautiful and sad to see that after so many years the last thing that David thought was Keith.
I dont know if I will be able to watch the show again. After two days I am still crying
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Mar 6, 2007 11:30 AM
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I know how you feel. I watched it Sunday and it was the most heartbreaking thing in a long time.For me the deat of Keith was horrible and specially the way he died and also have David live so many years without Keith. It was beautiful and sad to see that after so many years the last thing that David thought was Keith.
I dont know if I will be able to watch the show again. After two days I am still crying
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Mar 5, 2007 11:54 PM
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I just finished the last episode fifteen minutes ago and feel inconsolable. Clair dies alone at 102 years old, and as the typical white fade out screen came and went, and we were left only with an image of clair at 24 driving through the desert, I cried. I cried more than i have in years. It was all so sad and scary and clear; her whole life passed before my eyes in an instant and I knew, I know, for a fact that I will be the same way. I'm a 24 year old guy living in new york and I will be, with 100% certainty, lying in a bed one day waiting to die. I'll glance over the trinkets I've collected to remember my life and know that it all meant nothing; everything I am and everything I ever was and everything I've ever felt and experienced will be bleached away in a white fade out, much like those common cuts in the show. And I'll never feel or experience ever again, and I'm scared. Really scared.
Adam
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Feb 20, 2007 1:59 PM
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> > I just finished the last episode last night (my
> > husband and I have been watching the whole season
> on
> > dvd) and I cried SO hard. I know it is just a
> show,
> > but it reminded me that life is so short, you have
> to
> > live NOW. The characters were very relatable to my
> > own life and it hurt like I had lost family
> members
> > when they died on the show.
> >
> > Although the last episode was one of the best I
> have
> > ever seen to end a show, it was just so sad. Alas,
> > that is the way life is.
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> What I found saddest of all was that Claire died with
> an impersonal attendant in the room, rather than a
> roomful of friends and relatives like Ruth.
>
Very sad. But apropos of her character. People that fiercely individualistic (not feigned individualism) tend to gravitate toward solitude.
Fuzzy, I think I literally wept when I watched the finale. And "All Alone." I thought the latter was actually a better episode, IMHO. But they were all weep-worthy.
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"l'amour est une forme de folie"
from Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach
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