{"id":23254,"date":"2024-09-23T00:15:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T23:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23254"},"modified":"2024-09-23T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T11:03:46","slug":"why-fight-it-the-guilt-trip-blackmail-of-the-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23254","title":{"rendered":"WHY FiGHT iT? The Guilt-Trip Blackmail of The Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s just past midnight. I\u2019m sitting upright-ish, in bed. Not able, currently, to sleep. I hate insomnia with the deep-seated hatred of bitter experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, a common cold, or a nights\u2019 disrupted sleep, can be life-threatening for me these days. Why? Because I\u2019ve been ground down by adversity and suffering &#8211; and no doubt being a right tit &#8211; for sooooooooooooooooo fucking long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I lie\/sit here, awake. I wish only for oblivion. The cessation of suffering. Or just plain cessation. And such feelings hardly seem hysterical or unreasonable to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I durs\u2019nt act on them. Because that would be cowardly and selfish. Say The Living. To me it would be bold and decisive. A positive move, to bring about a state devoutly wished for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ho fucking hum\u2026 it\u2019s cowardly selfishness and laziness, and brute in-built survival instincts, that keep me going. What a sorry carry on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s just past midnight. I\u2019m sitting upright-ish, in bed. Not able, currently, to sleep. I hate insomnia with the deep-seated hatred of bitter experience. Sadly, a common cold, or a nights\u2019 disrupted sleep, can be life-threatening for me these days. Why? Because I\u2019ve been ground down by adversity and suffering &#8211; and no doubt being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WHY FiGHT iT? The Guilt-Trip Blackmail of The Living&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-634","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23255,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23254\/revisions\/23255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}