Rui > I took a class on classical Japanese literature. It’s so different I don’t think there’s any way to decipher it without having formally studied the grammar.

R > あだし野、行ったことあるんだ！すごい！徒然草を読んで僕も行きたくなった。　R さんもミイラになりたい？ミイラになったらもう美人じゃないよ？まあ、その時には R さんにはそんなことどうでもいいだろうけど（笑）

utsana > I don’t know much about modern Japanese views on death; I’ve never been to a funeral here (or anywhere that I can remember, for that matter). That might be an interesting research subject.

Brian > You truly are Captain International. Too bad you don’t have my car, which is named “the Internationalizationmobile” according to the keychain they gave me.

Richard > Ok, 65 not 60; noted. But don’t get mad at me for the rest of that; I’m just a vessel through which the words of Kenko Yoshida are transmitted from medieval Japan into the present.

Here is a fun nerd note for you.

I am browsing your website using a Korean language browser, from Vietnam, and your site is based in America.

I am a worldly man.

Anyway, ‘Death’ is an interesting subject matter. I reckon it’s a powerful term with powerful meaning cuz it ends everything and just the thought of it freaks a lot of people out… I used to sit down and look at images of beautiful people that passed away (literally and not so literally beautiful) and think… gee.. how sad… but then again, there wouldn’t be any space for the newer gens were they not deceased to make space… I heard from somewhere (probably just in my own head) that the birth rate is still out numbering the death rate .. is that considered a good thing or a bad thing? Am I asking you directly?… urr .. yeah I am. But you can most certainly take it as rhetorical if you wish

If I had to choose… I’d rather die of old age then through some horrific accident. But I can’t choose (and neither can anyone) so death comes as SURPRISE SURPRISE!!!