A Beautiful Description of Death

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thelastheraldmageThu 24/05/07 23:02

I know that sounds rather maudlin but let me explain; a boy of about 14 in my book has just died. He had progenera (sp?) a disease that causes you to age prematurely though I do not think that that is what he died of. Here's how the author describes it:

"Orlando did not fight the darkness this time.
He could feel himself dissolving, slipping away, but there was nothing to be done about it. All that made him what he was seemed to be growing diffuse, like the scant substance of a cloud melting into hot sunlight - but it was darkness, not light, that refined and absorbed him.
For a moment he though he saw again the hospital rom and his parents. He tried to speak to them, to touch them, but he had already made that decision, [earlier in the book he had been offered the choice of saying a last goodbye to his parents or saving his friends and he choose the latter.] and now had no more substance that an idle thought; he could only skim past them into the growing dark.
I'm just a memory now. The realisation should have been terrible and sad, but it felt different than that, somehow. Still, though he had left them behind, he badly wanted to let them knowe he had not forgotten them. He could only hope that some umimaginable wind might carry his voice back to them through the empty spaces.
I love you, Mom. I love you, Dad.
It wasn't your fault...
He rushed on. The voices were back, whether real or not, but now they were calling to him in welcome. He was disappearing even as he simultaneously grew wider, grew deeper, until there was nothing left of him, but still he could encompass whole universes.
And after all that he had done to fight it, when he was finally ushered through into that moment, Orlando Gardiner found he did not fear the darkness after all." (c) Tad Williams 2000

I think that's rather beautiful don't you? I found it such an emotionally powerful piece of writing I just felt I had to share it.

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