Logan's Run

So I have a stockpile of blogs that have yet to be written. Took a week off the writing in the blog. Those gaps seem to happen. It's a very natural feeling to take some time away from the blog. This doesn't mean i'm not writing however. I wrote a poem that i'll post seperately.

The other day I watched a movie called Logan's Run. It's a 1976 classic directed by Michael Anderson. He's known for Around The World in 30 Days and Millenium. Not a huge catalog of hits from this director. But let me tell you-Logan's Run is a classic.

I think many different factors play into a good movie. And sometimes it's just a mixture of such random ingrediants that it just works. Like a stew or something. What I liked most about Logans Run was the cheesy special effects. And also the 70's perspective of 2033. Most of the "sci-fi" that is displayed in the movie has already been achieved in present day.

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The premise behind the movie is this-it's a utopian society where everyone lives carefree with no struggles of money or anything like that. You can even have mass orgy's. The catch-you can only live until the age of 30. Afterwhich you are put up to be killed.
This brought forth of whole bunch of cool moral questions that could be brought up in a philosophy class.

Above all I find how humans view death as fascinating. In the film two characters run away from the society-they literally have to break out. And hence they are running from death. For that moment they will survive. But although the characters do escape-they don't necessarily escape death. They merely have obtained the power over their own lives. So humans want control over life. It's true-we don't want to die in circumstances we don't necessarily agree with. In the movie the characters certainly do not escape death. But they do obtain a sense of control. Death on their own terms..that's the idea.

So it makes me think of my own life. And how possible when i'm quite older I may choose to end my own life. And some people gasp at that. Others question why a youngster like myself would even have these thoughts. But we all think of death. And I think we are all scared of death. Religion being a supressor to this fear. But I think even the most religious of people still shiver when they think of the end. Because no amount of church or religious doctrine can ever satisfy the question-where do we go when we die?

Death is coming for us all. And we will run from it as long as we have the usage of our legs. But someday our tired bodies will slip into the inevitable eternal slumber. That terrifies some people. So would I cash out on my own accord? Right now I'd say i'd be a little too scared. The knowledge of death. As in "I will die if I take this pill" seems to weigh too heavy on the mind. I don't think it is part of our psyche to really decide our own death. I always say that although I'm not religious (slightly spiritual though) I don't fear death. Because death is not a "thing" or an object. Death is a process. The same way the world spins and the sun rises and falls. Death is part of being alive. And we certainly don't experience death. It's not a sensory experience that's for sure.

What are your thoughts on death?

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