I'm crying without tears
And heart breaking without tear
I don't know if I lost something
Or if I never had it at all
But the longer I go on
I see the void in me
That nothing has ever filled.

The only reason
I'm not killing myself
Is because I'm a coward

I'm terrified of hurting people
I'm terrified of what's after death
And I'm terrified that life will be liveable one day
And I will have missed it.

How can I be so alone
When I'm surrounded by love?
The more I have,
The less I have.
I can't have what I want
Because I don't want anything
I just need for it to stop
To stop being me
To find someone new to be.
I don't want to be me.
But I've got no one else to be.

Once you've died, you should have no right whatsoever to your body. It should belong to the government for medical testing, organ donation, cadavers for students or food for animals. There is no logical reason for wasting a good body by burying or burning it. If your family wants a service, they can have one without your body being there.

A human body contains so many organs and tissues that can save lives. Failing that, it contains a huge amount of data for research and for medical students to use to properly be educated. I cannot think of a single rational reason for a body to be buried unless it is highly radioactive, and has to be put in a lead lined container for public safety.

Please, make it known to your next of kin that having your body stuffed in a box or set fire to is no way to go, it is insulting - imagine if your body could go on to save lives after you'd died. Wouldn't that be the most valuable way to go?


For my thoughts on Organ Donation, click here

I asked for the right to vote
I asked for the right to speak
The right to ask and do and feel
The right to be who I have to be

You gave me the right to kill
The right to decide and take away
I have the rights to speak my name
But not be who I am today

My mind is not for you to read
My body is mine to keep
I have lost the right to be alone in my house
But never to stand in the street

I will take my pride and march
With the last liberty left to see
Take away my private life
But you can’t take my freedom from me

I have no right to be here, they say
To stand on the Castle Grounds
But I paid for the turf I tread on
I am more than what I am allowed

I don’t vote because I don’t care
I don’t vote because it doesn’t change anything
I don’t vote because I don’t like anyone
I don’t vote in protest
I don’t vote because my party can’t win
I don’t vote because one vote doesn’t matter
I don’t vote because I don’t want to register
I don’t vote because I don’t want to change anything

 

I don’t vote because I don’t want my rights
I don’t vote because I will never complain
I don’t vote because the last thing we need
Is for democracy
To get its voice back