becoming suicided iii

the same senior executive had told his brief acquaintance that he only hired executives who had been fired – it showed they had shown sufficient gumption. if one had reached that level of management and responsibility and not pissed someone off enough to get sacked – what kind of manager-pansy were you? this struck borgiz as deeply true. of course here the analogy got more troubled:  once you were dead, the question of someone hiring you – even metaphorically – was ludicrous. or was it? with the vast highways of human information, the one still eluding us is the knowledge and condition of the dead. maybe in that most powerful domain his methods – and perhaps more importantly his devoting his life to developing and executing his methods – would put him in good standing with someone senior in the chthonic realms. it certainly isn’t impossible that there’s a parallel world with overlapping values. perhaps even that senior executive had died and would hire him immediately! yes, things were looking good.

but then pokeus hesitated.  if this were the case – these analogies between non-existence and existence – would he not confront precisely the same challenges there as here? would he not then be wandering in the shades determining methods to be suicided in a place of fundamentally different laws … or what would the term be if one were already dead? if one could be born again, surely one could be suicided again. and as we know now, it isn’t like the christians contrived – that we are born physically once into the physical world and born again spiritually once into the kingdom of god – but that we’re born again every year, every day, every moment – backwards and forwards and sideways. so with becoming suicided. ah, this will be the challenge: learning a new language, new routines, orientations. for surely if they speak – and this is in doubt but possible – the vocabulary and syntax of the dead will bear little similarity to those spoken, written, and thought on earth.

all this though was assuming certain base levels of analogy. what if hiring, if recognition were a metaphor not for something that happens in the underworld but for something that happens after death in the living lands? so that by innovating methodologies of becoming suicided horgiz would be elected, so to speak, to a future suicidalist hall of fame on earth, as it becomes progressively enlightened as to the core renewal of these core energetic relationships. he’d become a wayne gretzky of the passive voice, his number retired, his sweater hanging from heaven’s rafters. true – all it was is posthumous recognition. but not quite. for it was acknowledging that achievements in death could and should be celebrated not just in death, but life. that what happens under the soil is as or more influential than what happens on top.