One of the previous owners of my house died in the living room about 5 feet from where I’m sitting right now.
The key to eternal life and never dying is to stay in the living room. Don't leave the living room.
Submitted 11 months ago by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Doesn’t the smell bother you?
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Only for the first few months.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
Cashing their pension cheques makes up for it.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dang. But how is it possible to die in the room that’s designated for living? 🤔
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Talent. And the heart attack probably helped a little.
cuchilloc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually, maybe the trick is never entering the living room in the first place. What is dead may never die.
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They were contrarians, I guess.
xoggy@programming.dev 11 months ago
Living room is by the front door so setting up the hospice bed in the large room with the easiest access to the exit makes sense.
Drusas@kbin.social 11 months ago
Spending a lot of time sitting or otherwise not standing up/moving around increases the risk of death. I say from my couch.
ilovesatan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nobody said you couldn’t exercise in the living room.
jaybone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who said you can’t die in the living room?
MadBabs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wonder what room in the house is most often died in (what’s the dying room?). Bedroom? Kitchen?
hperrin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The masturbatorium.
Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Badroom, obviously!
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gonna guess bedroom, as we’re most vulnerable while sleeping, whether from external forces or internal.
Chetzemoka@startrek.website 11 months ago
Bathroom? Going out Elvis style
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It is the room that lives, not its occupants.
zaine00@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
😯
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 11 months ago
I don’t have a living room. Am I fucked?
Or can I exist on a technicality that any room I live in, is a living room, and therefore if I never leave my bedroom or game hobby room, I’m good, right?
… R-Right?
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
yeah, just eat healthy and exercise and drink plenty of water and you’ll be free to roam the earth.
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The earth is my living room
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
This is why they don't have a living room in Clue
flicker@kbin.social 11 months ago
The living room is red herring.
evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Leave the living room at once. It knows you’re there.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The mathematician defines the entire R3 space as living room
theodewere@kbin.social 11 months ago
but the treats are generally stored elsewhere
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
You can eat treats or you can live long, you decide.
Hupf@feddit.de 11 months ago
What is a long life without treats but a hollow one?
theodewere@kbin.social 11 months ago
it's a pickle
Burninator05@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wonder if there is a way to either store treats in the living room or if someone could be persuaded to bring treats in when desired?
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
and take care of your liver.
CarlsIII@kbin.social 11 months ago
“Living room” is just a name we came up with. Just rename everything else to “living ____”, such as “living car”, “living office”, or “living restaurant”.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I guess I’m going to die in my sleep then, because there’s no way I’m ever calling it my “living bed”.
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sad mimic noises
HubertManne@kbin.social 11 months ago
just don't get into anything called a death bed no matter how much you have something you want to say.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 months ago
But we have a German saying “Daheim sterben die Leut’.” which means "People die at home.
cuchilloc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My education is fiction so: Valar Morghulis (GOT), and Live together die Alone (LOST).
HubertManne@kbin.social 11 months ago
but I need to take a crap!
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fun fact! It used to be called the parlor and was basically only used for home funerals, so was casually called the death room. When the funeral industry became a thing, rebranding it as “the living room” was an effort by the Ladies Home Journal in 1910 to get rid of the creepy feeling most people associated with that room, to make it a nice place for families to hang out while still alive.
armls.com/step-into-the-death-room
tryptaminev@feddit.de 11 months ago
i strongly doubt that many people had the money for a room that they just used to present someones body if they died.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was also used for formally entertaining guests and wedding receptions. It was where the expensive furniture and good dishes were kept, that you didn’t really use except when trying to impress people. So yes, it wasn’t for families who lived in a one room, dirt floor hovel, or families that had servants and many formal entertaining rooms that they could afford to use regularly and maintain, but if you were middle class and had enough for a “good room” that you wanted to “save for best” then that was what it was used for. www.simplysoldaz.com/the-death-room/
Also- 30% of people died before the age of 5 in 1900 England and USA, so it’s not like they rarely had occasion to use it.
There’s a part in one of the Disc World books by Terry Pratchett (which are fiction, but roughly analogous to that time period in England) where we are being introduced to Granny Weatherwax (a witch) and it is said of her that she never ever uses the front door of her own house, because that is for brides and corpses and she didn’t plan on ever being either of those.
Acamon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My parents grew up in working class 1950s Britain. My dad’s parents slept in the kitchen (with a curtain round the bed for privacy), which was also the room that most “living” was done. The three kids shared a single small room, with both teenage boys sharing a double bed, their older sister got her own single bed, and she stayed there until she married and moved out in her early twenties. I remember seeing that room and even as a child it seemed cramped, no space really for anything else once the two beds were in it.
While the whole the family was living, eating and sleeping in two small room, an immaculate “front room” / parlour was kept solely for the two or three days a year where they had “company” (a family event like a wedding or funeral, or the priest visiting or something). The front room was bigger than both the others. It’s hard to comprehend the priorities that led to this sort of thing, but it was apparently extremely common in that time and place.
Arelin@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Our lore is weird