#death words

[marbearwrites]

Death and His Grief Hounds...

The Grief Hounds circle the floor of my bedroom while Death sits calmly in my recliner. I glare at him from my bed.

"You weren't supposed to take him too."

He smiles. "Darlin', I hope you learn that some unexpected deaths happen. I'm sorry you had to go through that. But he left quickly."

"I hate you," I reply to Death.

"That's nothing new, sweetheart. I'm surprised you've turned on me is all. I thought you wanted my company, remember? Aren't you rather lonely grieving by yourself?"

"So? That doesn't change the fact that you took him away from us."

The Grief Hounds yawn lazily watching us converse back and forth. One saunters up onto my bed. His black fur, soft, underneath my fingers. He licks my face and rests his dark head in my lap.

"He had to go."

"I didn't get to tell him good morning like I always do."

Tears are welling in my eyes, but they refuse to fall.

"I know, but he knows you loved him. You can still love him. He's in a good place and not in pain."

He pauses watching His Grief Hound nuzzle into me.

"He seems to like you a lot."

"What is he?"

"A dog, can't you tell?"

"He's no dog."

"He is, but he's a special kind of creature."

"Oh?"

Death smiles as if he holds all the secrets in the world.

"Every death is different. Some are sudden and quick. Others are long waiting periods. My job isn't always fun. You should know this, by now."

Death rises from his seat and pets his Grief Hounds.

"Keep her company for a while, alright boys? She's rather lonely right now."

"Won't you need them, too?"

"No, I have a multitude of them. These two are my favorite though."

"Why are you giving them to me?"

"You need them," He states matter-of-factly.

"Do they have names?"

"No, but you can name them if you like."

Mind preoccupied with names; Death vanishes from my room.

"What kind of names do you like?"

They gaze up at me with their dark eyes. One lays beside me while the other curls up in my lap. I scratch both of their heads as we sit comfortably together.

"What about Vesper for you," I tell the one in my lap.

"And Draven for you," I tell the one wedged into my side.

Both Vesper and Draven sigh and close their eyes.

I lean back into my pillows, as I watch the Grief Hounds sleep.

"I hope Death doesn't disagree on your names," I whisper as their added warmth lulls me to sleep.

[columboscreens]

[chouhatsumimi]

Death-related vocab

Hey, you read enough manga, sooner or later you get a collection of oddly specific death-related words

厭離 おんり, えんり departing from this world in disdain

厭魅, 魘魅 えんみ killing someone with a magical curse

餞, 贐 はなむけ, せん farewell gift, parting gift, viaticum

最期 さいご one's last moment, one's death, one's end / en el último momento, tiempo de morirse

生き身は死に身, 生き身は死身 いきみはしにみ all that lives must eventually die

介錯 かいしゃく beheading (as the ending to a seppuku), assistance, help

終焉, 終えん しゅうえん demise

瀕死, ひん死 ひんし (on the) verge of death

悶死 もんし death in agony

打ち首, 討首 うちくび decapitation, beheading

断頭台 だんとうだい (beheading) block, guillotine, scaffold / guillotina

命拾い いのちびろい narrow escape from death / lograr salvar la vida en el último momento, librarse por los pelos

致死 ちし lethal, fatal / letal, mortal

誅する ちゅうする to put to death

免れる まぬがれる, まぬかれる to escape (disaster, death, etc.), to be saved from, to be rescued from, to avoid (e.g. punishment), to evade (e.g. responsibility), to avert, to elude, to be exempted from / librarse, escapar, salvarse

投身 とうしん throwing oneself to one's death, precipitating oneself to one's death, leaping to one's death

身を挺する, 身をていする, 身を呈する みをていする to risk one's life (to do), to put one's life on the line, to step forward (to do), to give one's all

身罷る みまかる to pass away, to die

術中死 じゅっちゅうし death during surgery, intra-operative death, operational death

矢面に立つ やおもてにたつ to be in the firing line, to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.), to face (e.g. questioning)

引導を渡す いんどうをわたす to perform the last rites over the deceased, to give someone their final notice (e.g. when firing them), to give someone the final word / ejecutar los últimos ritos sobre el difunto

謀殺 ぼうさつ premeditated murder, deliberate murder, willful murder, wilful murder

死因 しいん cause of death / causa de muerte

死に際, 死にぎわ, 死際 しにぎわ verge of death, brink of death / postrimerías, últimos momentos de la vida

人柱 ひとばしら human pillar, human sacrifice

首を洗って待つ くびをあらってまつ to wait for one's punishment, to wait before one gets what's coming to one, to wash one's neck and wait (i.e. for one's beheading)

首実検, 首実験 くびじっけん identifying a severed head, checking a person's identity

首級, 首 しゅきゅう, しるし decapitated head of an enemy

無駄死に, 徒死に むだじに dying in vain, useless death, meaningless death

刺し違える, 刺しちがえる, 刺違える さしちがえる to stab each other, to sacrifice oneself in order to harm someone else

手にかける, 手に掛ける てにかける to take care of, to bring up under one's personal care, to kill with one's own hands, to do personally, to handle (e.g. a job), to request that someone deal with (something)

[related] 手に掛かる, 手にかかる [てにかかる (tenikakaru)] to fall into someone's hands, to place oneself in someone's power

撥ねる, 刎ねる はねる to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone), to run into, to reject, to deny, to refuse, to eliminate, to exclude, to leave out, to flip, to splash, to splatter, to decapitate, to behead, to jump up, to point or curl up (e.g. ends of hair) / curvear la punta hacia arriba, botar, sablear, atropellar

轢く [ひく (hiku)] to run over (with a vehicle), to knock down

腹を括る, 腹をくくる はらをくくる to prepare oneself for the worst, to strengthen one's resolve, to accept one's fate, to prepare oneself

のた打ち回る, のたうち回る のたうちまわる to writhe (in pain)

寝首をかく, 寝首を掻く ねくびをかく to cut off the head of a sleeping person, to assassinate someone while they sleep, to catch someone off their guard by setting traps

捨て身, 捨身 すてみ putting one's life on the line, giving everything one has got, acting out of desperation

今際, 今わ いまわ one's dying moment or hour / postrimerías de la vida, ocaso de la vida, últimos momentos de la vida de una persona

人身御供　ひとみごくう　human sacrifice, victim

[pammydawes]

Trying to come up with possible death words since reading ninth house!!! pls reblog with contributions

- time does not bring relief OR and so stand stricken, so remembering him (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

-any of the lyrics from ‘in a week’ by hozier

- oh the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead (from o captain my captain by Walt Whitman)

-BONUS: necromantic chant for the raising of King Darius in the Persians by Aeschylus, double bonus if recited in original Ancient Greek

[hottmz]

10 Famous Last Words

10 Famous Last Words

Here are 10 historic figures and their famous last words.

Planned or not, some particularly notable individuals uttered one last memorable message before departing this world.

Here are 10 historic figures and their famous last words.

Number 10. Jack Daniel. In a fit of frustration, the Tennessee whiskey king kicked a safe, injured…

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[sodoffyabuggers]

Charlie wouldn't say anything. Chances are, she spent the first few weeks just... living outside. Sleeping out next to his gravestone. Shielding it from the rain with one of her wings on the nights when it /would/ rain. People might call her crazy. Maybe a few people tried to kick her out at night. But she'd always come back. Nearly starve herself until she realized that there was no point in dying too. But even after that.. She'd still come every few days. And talk to him as if he'd never gone.

((

I THOUGHT I HAD ESCAPED THIS FROM YOU

I THOUGHT I WAS IN THE CLEAR

I WAS NOT IN THE CLEAR))

[sodoffyabuggers]

//on behalf of chaos: "Quit being dead you're boring." *covers headstone in eggos*

((Worth's soul rises from the dead and throws his computer out of the nearest window))

[awakemyspirit]

What to say?

What do you say when someone is crying their heart out to you? The loss of someone special in their lives, and you have no words to say. Refrain from using phrases like "that sucks" and "you must really feel awful." but after that, all you can really say is "I'm sorry" but those words get thrown around so much in our culture that they may take it just as being sympathetic. What else can you say? You really do care, just no comforting words can come to mind. You're absolutely speechless in reverence. You get this churning in your stomach that makes you wish that you had exactly the right words to say. Like maybe they could see in your heart and truly know how deeply sorry you are that they're gone.