is death romantic?

Question

my girlfriend is always telling me how she finds death romantic. i just don't see it, i think she been listening to jeff buckley far to much.

Answer 1

I suppose there is a certain romance to death but as one gets to be a geek like me that feeling has faded into my past. Death is the end of seeing the sun rise, the sun set and the feeling of its warmth upon my face, not very romantic from my perspective.

Answer 2

Death is only romantic to those who believe it preferable to life without someone they love. To those who have lived life long enough to understand how beautiful it can be with just about anyone, death is anything "but" romantic.

"Lover's leap", and other famous places that romanticize death of young lovers who were to be separated against their will are the result of those who seek justification and meaning in the senseless death of someone they love. It is somehow "romantic" to think that someone would rather "die" than live without you...it is also incredibly selfish and self-centered. It is also the same theme behind love-motivated suicide...that somehow killing yourself because you can't have what you want in the way of love is "so romantic"...again, it goes back to the sense that it is romantic to give up your most precious possession (your life) if you can't have what you want. Life's ultimate, and permanent, tantrum...a sure sign of immaturity.

So, if your girlfriend believes death is "romantic", it is most likely because she's a young, self-centered, self-absorbed and selfish individual...you know, a teenager. If she lives long enough, and experiences enough of "real life" (not soap operas and other "clean kill" stuff), she'll come to despise suicide, regardless of the reason and appreciate what a waste early death is, and what a shame it is that anyone has to die.

The only "romantic" death I can truly think of is to have an old couple die together in their sleep...and that is the "only" example that comes to "my" mind.

Answer 3

Death is cathartic, but not romantic. If there were no mystery to death, no one would consider it. When your girlfriend listens to Jeff Buckley, who died young, was talented, and beautiful, she is thinking of him being those things. When, for example, Richard Nixon died, it wasn't really romantic, was it? I believe the mystery of death (the ultimate afterlife question) of someone young, beautiful and vibrant is what is romantic. Not death itself.

Answer 4

i don't know jeff buckley but whoever he is, he is an eternal optimist!! there is no romance in death, death is the end of everything, there is no tomorrow or future more or less its a period, the end, thats it, no more. life is more like a romance which its ups and down, problems and solutions, happiness and sadness, love and hate, etc. etc.

Answer 5

If its not your death, it can be.

Some poet wrote like this.

How majestic it is , the crying girl over a dead butterfly.

Death dramatise the tragedy and emptiness of life .

It excites our sentimentalism, in that sense it can be romantic,

But we can say its romantic death when we see the victims of terror and crime

Answer 6

Watch Romeo and Juliet

or Shakespeare in Love - even though the ending is not about death but I like it

Answer 7

I don't really see it either...I mean wouldn't it be pretty sad if the love of your life just dropped down dead in front of you? I mean that would be awful! And then when you commit suicide because of them it gets even worse. Wouldn't it be more romantic if they just stayed alive and got married etc?

Answer 8

yes. listen to "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie.

Answer 9

It can be to some, but if they were around for the smell and the decomposition--well, let's just say the bloom falls of the rose.

Answer 10

unfortuneatly, like romeo and juliet. and those two old chicks who rob stores, go on the run, in a convertible and run it off a cliff and die.............