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Kerry:
Is it better to have loved passionately and died of a broken heart or never to have loved at all?

Earlier today, I was listening to Jessye Norman singing Dido's Lament from Henry Purcell's opera, "Dido and Aeneas." It occurred to me, "Is it better to have loved passionately and died of a broken heart or never to have loved at all?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzXbx97_UI
Ms Norman sings, "When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create no trouble. Remember me, but ah, forget my fate."

Katie77:
Anyone who has ever loved passionatly, would never give up that experience.

Even if it meant dying of a broken heart, to have missed having had that love would be worse than never having felt it at all.

In my opinion, anyone who has never loved would feel just as bad as having a broken heart anyway.

pnwDUDE:

--- Quote from: Kerry on March 20, 2009, 01:06:54 am ---
Earlier today, I was listening to Jessye Norman singing Dido's Lament from Henry Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas." It occurred to me, "Is it better to have loved passionately and died of a broken heart or never to have loved at all?"

--- End quote ---

To have loved is to experience something those who have never loved have not. Simply put, one who dies experiencing love is far better than one who has never loved. The prior has the experience, the later not.

Which makes me think. When so much about the gay lifestyle has nothing to do with love but everything to do with sex, what becomes of those who 'fucked' the years away? I know many, many gay men that did just that. Passionate love was never a motivation. It was all about how many and how often and most aren't around to discover what love is all about. 

Jack and Ennis certainly experienced passionate love. Despite fatherhood and such, they found love in each other. That which they would have never found in Lureen and Alma. Would it have been better for them to marry and have kids like they did and never love passionately like only they could do (with another man)? Of course not.

Brad

injest:
doesnt' EVERYONE that loves passionately die with a broken heart? I cant see how you couldn't...the odds of dying at the exact moment in peace with your loved one are vanishingly small. I can't think of what it would be like to be the survivor, if something happened to Don.

but I know my heart would be broken.

Kerry:
I voted for "Love passionately and die of a broken heart."  It appears to be firmly in the lead.

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