TiTAnIc

"Who does not love the Titanic?
If they sold passage tomorrow for that same crossing,
who would not buy?

To go down...We all go down, mostly
alone. But with crowds of people, friends, servants,
well fed, with music, with lights! Ah!

And the world, shocked, mourns, as it ought to do
and almost never does. There will be the books and movies
to remind our grandchildren who we were
and how we died, and give them a good cry.

Not so bad, after all. The cold
water is anesthetic and very quick.
The cries on all sides must be a comfort.

We all go: only a few, first-class."

I've never heard of the Titanic deaths as "not so bad" but the guy does have a point in a way. We all die so why not die in style? I can't imagine it being "a comfort" but its got to better than some ways of dying. Now all those people are remembered and how often does the average Joe get that much recognition for their deaths?

To me, its saddest that we worry about dying alone. Our fears can be so great that we fill our houses with pets and live on hope that someone will find us soon after we die so that our pets wont eat us. What kind of society do we live in that we are so close together but so far apart? Used to, grandparents would automatically live with family after they got to be older. Now, they get shoved into nursing homes where they don't know anybody and strangers are getting more personal then family.

David, the poet, calls the Titanic victims "first-class". That would be like the millionaires to have a dying party. "By invitation only!"