{"id":2150,"date":"2015-10-23T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2015-10-25T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T22:14:27","slug":"morturi-te-salutant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2150","title":{"rendered":"Morturi Te Salutant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAve Imperator, morituri te salutant!\u201d The gladiators in the Coliseum reportedly greeted the emperor before commencing their fights: \u201cHail Emperor, those who are about to die salute you!\u201d  Be afraid! Be very afraid! Hahahaha! It\u2019s All Hallow\u2019s Eve, a time to scare and enjoy the delicious feeling of mixing slight fear with just pretend.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re getting closer to Halloween, and that holiday gives us a chance to fulfill several fantasies. One is being other than we are, to dress in costume, to be sillier or sexier or whatever-er than most people know us. But it\u2019s also a time that we become scary, some of us, and play ghosts and witches and such. Jack o\u2019 Lanterns are really mocking skulls, or they vaguely look like them. Spiders and snakes and such. Oooh. <\/p>\n

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Halloween mocks and plays with what is taboo, which is why it\u2019s fun. One of those taboos is dying, which brings it into the topic range. You didn\u2019t used to be free to talk about dying, neither doctors or patients or relatives. She\u2019s not going to die! We wanted the doctor to announce with great confidence. Save her, save her! We felt obliged to yell. No matter what the cost, save her!<\/p>\n

This great charade was and remains so phoney baloney. People die! Get over it! I\u2019m gonna die, you\u2019re gonna die, he, she, it is gonna die. That\u2019s from Latin, the conjugation of the verb. Every verb has a different ending in Latin. So to die? I die, morior; you (singular): moreris; he-she-it dies: moritur, and so forth. Whence comes the salutation at the beginning of this piece.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m giving a series of talks which someday maybe will be posted on my website, talks on new trends in treatment. The title of the course is \u201cYou Mean You Can Do That?\u201d and it talks about bleeding, leeches, fecal implants, medical marijuana, etc. On 10\/26 I\u2019ll talk about those who are talking openly about dying. It used to be a taboo. My point is that it\u2019s good to talk about preferences, what\u2019s important, etc.
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\u201cAve Imperator, morituri te salutant!\u201d The gladiators in the Coliseum reportedly greeted the emperor before commencing their fights: \u201cHail Emperor, those who are about to die salute you!\u201d  Be afraid! Be very afraid! Hahahaha! It\u2019s All Hallow\u2019s Eve, a time to scare and enjoy the delicious feeling of mixing slight fear with just pretend. We\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}