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Linguistically Speaking

Thursday, 6. July 2006

How to Die Decently

jiigai

"[Japanese] women have their own ritual suicide, jigai. Here, the wife of Onodera Junai, one of the Forty-seven Ronin, prepares for her suicide; note the legs tied together, a female feature of seppuku to ensure a 'decent' posture in death." (Wikipedia: On Seppuku)

Incidentals

I'm an idealist.
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

-- Carl Sandburg, Incidentals (1907)