Roger Ebert the celebrated and cerebral film critic in Chicago tweets on POKKURI: the Japanese term for "popping off" in one's sleep and dying a peaceful, quiet, painless death. RE: ebertchicago: Danny Bloom on "Pokkuri," the Japanese word for popping off suddenly. There's even a Pokkuri goddess in Japan!.

Roger Ebert tweets on POKKURI: the Japanese term for "popping off" in one's sleep and dying a peaceful quiet painless death.

RE: ebertchicago: Danny Bloom on "Pokkuri," the Japanese word for popping off suddenly. There's even a Pokkuri goddess. http://j.mp/apcFFR



http://open.salon.com/blog/danbloom/2009/08/07/pokkuri_a_japanese_way_of_death_by_popping_off


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TMTheFreak 25 May 27, 2010 Reply
@ebertchicago Thanks "pokkuri" link. Interesting read.
9 minutes ago · Danny Bloom

 litdreamer 21 3 days ago Reply
@ebertchicago Those crazy Japanese! What will they think of next?

8 minutes ago · Danny Bloom saffronroses 123 3 days ago Reply
@ebertchicago When pokkuri happens in the middle of the night, a spouse or family is/are often bereft of the chance to say goodbye.

8 minutes ago · Danny Bloom ClaudeSeymour 29 3 days ago Reply
@ebertchicago Jeez, I thought "Pokkuri" was about premature ejaculation, for a moment there.

Lisa1LinenLady 1,674 2
@ebertchicago I thought you were getting vulgar. The boomers will get to know it & pray 4 it w the future of health care

NOTE: I had casually mentioned to Mr Ebert in a blog post that he might want to know about this Japanese term POKKURI, which literally means to POP OFF, in one's sleep or in sudden heart attack, a painless, quiet and serene death..........and Roger liked the term, replied to me, and tweeted it, and these comments came in, among others. Would love to see a larger national discussion on these issues, perhaps with a news story in the New York Times, or a wire story. Any reporterse interested in interviewing Mr Ebert or me or the monks in Japan who run the Pokkuri shrine in Nara, Japan? The AP had a story on the shrine a few years ago, that's how I first heard of it. Lived in Japan for five years 1990s but never heard the term until I saw the AP story. It resonates with me, so I am doing a quiet PR job for POKKURI, in anyone cares.

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