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EmilyZhou@reversibledestiny.bsky.socialtoday in maria hernandez park i watched a baby squirrel fall dead from a tree and the two lesbians sitting next to me used it as an opportunity to introduce themselves to each other
one of them to the other: “the gay community has had a hard week. dolly parton, tim curry, that squirrel…”
David Bowie and Alan Rickman died in the same week in early 2016 and I wrote a blog piece since a lot of people were leaning on the trope that death comes in threes.
TLDR: We imagine death comes in threes because we think of things in threes. In fact, people die all the time, and some of them are notable, and we choose which ones go together.
I talk about my cousin who died because he was in the grandstands at the Reno Air Races when one of the racing planes lost control and careened into the grandstands, a particularly unusual way to die.
His family is super religious, and they were desperate to understand why, how this fulfilled a divine plan. In the end, it comes down to shit happening. Attendance at air races isn’t even particularly risky, but sometimes the dice role a fumble.
120 people around the world die every minute on average
120 / 3 = 40
Checkmate, nonbelievers