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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Dead bikers are usually lauded for dying "doing what they loved", and other trite twaddle. One wonders if that was true in this case.
    I'm pretty sure it is said, as comfort to family and friends.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trustme View Post
    The frustration is that to a large degree we have no one to blame but ourselves.
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    No but you should give one of your dicks a rest .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Akzle View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drew View Post
    I'm pretty sure it is said, as comfort to family and friends.
    Yeah, well it's ridiculous. It's the WORST thing that can happen to a person, not the best.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Yeah, well it's ridiculous. It's the WORST thing that can happen to a person, not the best.
    Philosophy not being my strongest suit, I don't want to start a debate.

    However, it's not the worst thing to be doing when you die. Consider having a cunt of a day at work as your last memory, and getting dotted by a bus as you leave.

    It begs the question of consciousness after death of course, and such things should only be conversed with a good skin full amongst close mates.

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    I'd rather have a cunt of a day. Then die. Than die on a bike.

    It's a stupid platitude that when you think it through, (go on, your brain needs the exercise), makes no sense, like all platitudes and is tantamount to an insult to both the dead person and the grieving people.

    "At least he wasn't doing something he loved when he died", makes a shit load more sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Dead bikers are usually lauded for dying "doing what they loved", and other trite twaddle.
    Everyone loves laying on the side of the road, with broken bones protruding from their body, bleeding profusely and gasping for air, whilst crying for their mother? It's quite an odd saying, really.
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    After seeing relatives and friends die of cancer and other diseases, give me a quick death on my bike any day. I want it to be a surprise to everyone when I go, not laying in a bed for months waiting for the end. Of course there's always the chance that a bike or car crash could leave me with all kinds of injuries that could ruin the rest of my life so it's not an ideal solution but better than cancer (which in my case is probably not too unlikely).

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    That's not what we're talking about mushu, but nice attempt at a strawman argument.

    Platitudes is the subject. "Died doing what they loved", is imbecilic. Q.E.D.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    That's not what we're talking about mushu, but nice attempt at a strawman argument.

    Platitudes is the subject. "Died doing what they loved", is imbecilic. Q.E.D.
    but i love riding my bike.
    if I died while riding my bike it only stands to reason, I died doing what i love.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoristheBiter View Post
    but i love riding my bike.
    if I died while riding my bike it only stands to reason, I died doing what i love.
    If you have a quick heart attack or brain embolism while riding, maybe.

    But many die, not riding, but lying next to their bike, in a mangled heap. That's not the bit anyone loves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pzkpfw View Post
    If you have a quick heart attack or brain embolism while riding, maybe.

    But many die, not riding, but lying next to their bike, in a mangled heap. That's not the bit anyone loves.
    Yeah, it's not so much the dying, per se, but how long it takes and whether it's painful or not. Often the news will say, "He died instantly." when you have a fair idea that wouldn't be the case.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pzkpfw View Post
    If you have a quick heart attack or brain embolism while riding, maybe.

    But many die, not riding, but lying next to their bike, in a mangled heap. That's not the bit anyone loves.
    Then that becomes how one dies not what one was doing when one dies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoristheBiter View Post
    but i love riding my bike.
    if I died while riding my bike it only stands to reason, I died doing what i love.
    Still missing the point. It's a platitude. It makes the person saying or writing it feel like they are being deep and meaningful and providing support, but it makes the people they are saying it to feel patronised and confused.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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