Death is something that is truly inevitable. All things are born, live, and die. This project almost died because of truly unforeseen events happening in both authors' lives.
One author chose a path that he feared because of the failure of his father, fearing that his sins would be passed onto the next generation. He faced his fears and stepped into the unknown world of responsibility and accountability of adulthood, affecting all the lives around him with his choice. His father’s death, still to this day, affects him, but he is turning that around for the better.
The other author’s parents have now since passed on. One of his mother’s last wishes for him was for this book to be published, for something good to come out of all the bad we have faced in our lifetimes.
The disturbingly prophetic contents within this work have somehow echoed their way into reality. Shocking us, the creators of this work, into something we call awe. This work is too time sensitive and appropriate for what we face as individuals, and a country to let it slip through your fingers. We offer it up to you in all it disturbing imagery and nihilistic ranting. Each character in the work faces death, and the affects of death in their own way. Their lives are crumbling, their world is crumbling, their faith is crumbling, and they all feel alienated. Just as this generation of Americans feel out of sync with reality and more in sync with technology. The family structure has been broken up, our moral structure is waning, and our financial system is disintegrating before our eyes.
We are pumping gases into the air that should have stayed in the earth. We are burning our planet, gallon, by gallon. We are moving through this life as if we have an unending supply of time, resources, and credit. We forget that, one day, we will die and our children will be left with the mess. The hopelessness of the situation turns us all to Nihilism. Makes us turn to death as an obsession. We know, we can sense, that all is dying around us, so we run the opposite way. We fear old age and all that comes with it; we fear our bodies falling apart. We invest in age defying creams and drugs, life extension procedures, and subconsciously we do things that make us edge closer to death with every puff, sip, or injection. We are products of a much larger problem. We are the leftovers from the last generation’s mistakes. When they are dead and gone, we can no longer reckon their mistakes.
This book is a warning, an awakening, to all those who have ears to hear.
Stop for a moment, think about where you came from, think about where you want us to go. Take a breath of fresh air (if you can find any), slow down, take life in, it’s not a race. Help your fellow man. Do something good for those you love before it is too late. We need to teach this next generation how to fix our problems, and our father’s problems. Otherwise they’re going to end up like the characters in this book.
Is this what you want for your children?
