On Death

Dimitris Vayenas
4 min readAug 21, 2021

Death-related aphorisms taken from the whole story that deals with Death, Reentry, Space and Work

This Mortal Coil’s, “It will end in tears” contains the brilliant The Song to the Siren. Interpreted by Cocteaux Twins Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie, is one of these recordings that can justify any expense for a decent audio system.

On the occasion of Jerry’s death, I was checking my archive to share a couple of artifacts with Jeanne and Scotty. A mail came from Medium on an authors challenge on the topics of Reentry, Space, Work, and Death. This coincidence made me write this to them:

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Dimitris Vayenas

Ageing researcher of Theoretical Computer Science trying to model & quantify opacity based at Exeter College, Oxford