Peter Noll: dictations about dying and death The Swiss lawyer Peter Noll, friend of Dürrenmatt and Frisch will be diagnosed with bladder cancer. In a diary of 28 December 1981 - 30 September 1982, we read his "dictation about dying and death," but they contain much more philosophical political views, and religious considerations, we learn that Trotsky predicted the nuclear energy and has written a poem about Johann Peter Hebel, the impermanence, the fact we can read, such as Basel looks like after a nuclear war. Goethe had foreseen in the sorcerer's apprentice uncontrollability of the technology. It is the significance of poetry walks through the ages. Each century has its own view. What about now with a view of death? Survival at any cost? Peter Noll is the human dignity comes first. Posted by Peter Noll
I will not get into the surgical and urological radiology machine because I will lose my piece after piece of my freedom.
So no surgery. His death should be celebrated, the community should deal with death. "Nothing is covered up, nothing to be played down, even the way I want to block the repression." Peter Noll finger into the wound of Christian faith, which is usually shrunken opportunity to mock faith .. "We all come so only for burial ceremonies in a church" , (you could add here, possibly even to marriages), then Christianity is not lived, but died in the last breath still considered maybe there are eternal life or the most difficult Christian question "What is resurrection?" - Jesus was resurrected physically, there are still witnesses, though, I know my body rots but - here I can continue to spin endlessly, but just the means but Peter Noll. We go to church, hear a sermon that is beautiful, and on Monday will again sinned. The practice of Christianity is ill-conceived.
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The accuracy of diagnosis was compared with the uncertainty of the therapeutic success, something absurd .... The tumor has grown through the bladder completely, and just as one knows just wants to tumors, he continued to grow.
Noll reads "Mars" by Fritz Zorn, about a young man who writes about his cancer, dies at age 32. The book is exactly the opposite of our present journal. Anger, writes the name fits here, full of hatred and anger, apparently also on its previous history quite bitter. Reading this book would probably horrible for me. It's amazing how it succeeds Peter Noll, bring an edifying diary on paper. He has very much to tell, and when he writes about pain, it refreshes not in how terrible this is, in fact, he writes quite soberly
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My pain is now there, dull and heavy, but I can not say anything about it because I can rely on no other similar experience.
In contrast to animals, our brains in the "death" and think "God". Despite this peculiarity, these ideas are now displaces you. We are similar to the chimpanzees, we read, we look briefly at the dead relatives, feel it and turn away. It would be easier for friends, a cancer patient was in the hospital, already deported, perhaps to say goodbye yet, that's it. Is observed Peter Noll a loss to friends contacts. I think for a patient, it's always nice if he can maintain contacts, carefree friends can come to him. But it is precisely in the air, people avoid contact with death. A cancer patient has had one foot outside of our existence, where no one wants. "Is still totally supplanted the idea of God," says Noll, and in my area, I have the impression that running around more agnostics and atheists, although in religious-fundamentalist, etc. Directions today to complain more of a feed (Noll's diary was published posthumously in 1984). Noll has the talent very fine and compact quotes from the man Who spend more suitable for more than just calendar pages. Three examples:
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The brain thinks God. This does not mean that it must give him, but that is absolutely, irrefutably that the question for him and that the empirical positivism is a lame duck.
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The frugality makes more free than the fulfillment of all requirements.
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The dying man who has passed the medical equipment is really helpless because the Help he gets cold.
surprised I was when Peter Noll on Hoimar of Ditfurth's book "We are not only of this world," says. The book provides "the idea," Sun Noll, "the evolution of the world was still in support of ongoing creation and its end opens out into the afterlife where the spirit prevails, is impressive and plausible." is the famous and reminds me Ken Wilber "mid-term evolution" . From Hoimar of Ditfuth I "In the beginning was the Hydrogen read and did not know that the author is spiritually inclined. The book radiates of optimism, Peter Noll is here a slight shock, as he points out, the author conceal shameful "that the law of evolution, will lead at least on this Earth for destruction." I think Noll, the arms race of the nuclear powers in mind . Well, it gives our planet today.
epilogue
What it brings to perpetuate itself, be it in world literature, music history or art history. If you "lives on after death in some form as the same personality" , but this may not matter. The urge to perpetuate, so Noll implies, that it is not a life after death believe. The author closes in this regard, however, from the magical ideas of the ancient Egyptians, for the afterlife was just an extension of this world. The "dictations about dying and death" should not be guided by eternal ideas, just like this, the reader should "deal with dying, death and the afterlife has in life." The awareness that life is limited, has procured for the authors of this dictates certain advantages. The oases of meaning he was looking carefully, many will point to the oasis, which he had previously gone unheeded. Unimportant is left out, he concentrates on the essentials, to what is still really important. I think people who are in similar situations, it is similar to Mr. Noll. Our lives are limited. If we have the awareness, the next breath could be our last, we arrived people were really in the present and would be of any concern or worry about the next day. Before reading, I can not know what joy would I give this book.
Max Frisch: designs for a third diary - this is where he writes about the death of his friend.
