Scary moments.... I mean real ones

Though you might expect me to be talking about presentations, ninja jobs, personnel change, or even getting fired, when you look at the macro side of life, these things not only pale in comparison, but truly take their true shape of insignificant events in our lives. Well not completely insignificant, but silly when compared to births, marriages, divorce, winning the lotto, getting head from your best friend's mom or death.

But eliminate all those options from the last sentence and leave that last word. If anything is clear in this life, it's that we're all going to die, eventually. I know people have faith in modern medicine, the existence of vampires or the fountain of youth, but for most people, there's just kicking the bucket and holding on to see what the hell happens when we go all flatine and shit.

Why do I bring this topic now? Well apart from the fact that we've rarely talked about death and the workplace, well, this week I almost saw a co-worker die... and it puts a lot of shit into perspective and it reminds me of all the accidents, injuries and close calls I've seen in a work environment. All in all, I've seen a person lose consciousness from low blood sugar and go into shock, seen a heart attack, an epileptic seizure and have had a co-worker die from a variety of health complications. This week had me seeing a co-worker losing consciousness because of a congenital heart defect that after a nice dose of stress, his aorta pretty much shut off and cut blood from going to his brain for a few seconds, enough for him to collapse and almost die.

I don't know about you though, but when I hear something like that, I can't help but ask how this has gone unchecked for 6 years or so. Then I remember that we all have to work, and that some people don't consider taking a day off as something remotely kosher, or they simply don't take care of themselves. Whatever the reason, it just goes to show that you can actually die at your work place, something we rarely take into consideration since we're too busy hating or loving what we do to look past responsibilities and see that there's a life being lived in a cubicle next to you and that said life can expire at any moment.

But think about it, do you know of ANYONE who would want to die on the job? Obviously barring firemen, cops, soldiers, and samurai that consider said tragedy as honorable, which it is if you ask me, but if they had a choice, do you think anyone would want to die in their job? True there might be a few Officer Riggs out there, but for the most part, everyone has a very different place and moment they'd like to die in (as if we truly had a choice in this, suicides excluded). For my part, no. I think few things could be sadder than having the spend your last moments on this Earth with people you are forced to interact with and aren't necessarilly the ones you'd want to be with.

Hey, maybe I'm wrong and there's nothing more glorious than having an aneurism while finishing a spread sheet, but somewhow I doubt that.