Re: CHAT: facing your own mortality (as a conlanger)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 27, 2008, 3:05 |
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Rick Harrison wrote:
> Tuesday night I fell into a pond and nearly drowned. Since it was warm
> stagnant water, there is a remote chance that I may have been infected
> by Naegleria fowleri amoeba; if so, I could be dead within a couple of
> weeks.
I hope that's more of a theoretical possibility! Indeed, Wikipedia tells
me it's pretty rare: only 23 cases in the US between 1995 and 2004, but
then, I don't know how many people fell into warm stagnant water in the
same time.
...
> Is it arrogant to want some of your ideas to live on after you die?
If it is, why does that matter?
--
Tristan.