Love and Death

The past few texts we have been reading in class have seemed to focus on these two themes; you can't seem to have one without the other either.

In the song "Frankie and Johnny" we see how they loved each other so much. Everyone one around them could see how much they loved each other. In the end, one of them still ends up dying.

In the short story "Happy Endings" the characters always died in the end. It didn't matter if their life went perfectly or if one of them cheated or if they got a disease or even if they married somebody else: the point is you still die in the end.

In "What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Love?" we learn of the death of Terri's ex-lover. She said that he loved her more than anything, even if he did have a different way of showing it.
Maybe it isn't even a physical death, maybe it is a spiritual or emotional death. Maybe it is like what happened to Mel and his ex-wife and the love just "dies" in a sense.

Even now in C.S. Lewis' book, A Grief Observed, we see a man dealing with the loss of his wife. These other stories may have briefly passed over the thought, but now we are going into depth, into the personal story of a man dealing with the loss of the love of his life.

Maybe love and death inevitably go hand-in-hand. Jesus died for us to have a relationship with him. Our parents' life without kids was sacrificed to have us. What is your husband or wife, or even your boyfriend or girlfriend, sacrificing to be with you? Can you have a deep, intimate relationship without this sacrifice?