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Title: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: Nero on September 15, 2007, 01:59:06 PM
Post by: Nero on September 15, 2007, 01:59:06 PM
What colour do you associate with death?
Death is Black to me, as I thought it was to everyone, but recently I've heard some say White is the colour of Death.
What colour is death?
Death is Black to me, as I thought it was to everyone, but recently I've heard some say White is the colour of Death.
What colour is death?
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: RebeccaFog on September 15, 2007, 02:05:58 PM
Post by: RebeccaFog on September 15, 2007, 02:05:58 PM
different cultures use different colors to represent death. I think in the Jet Lee movie, HERO, they used white and maybe even red. It's a Chinese film.
Death is the color of earthworms to me. It squiggles too.
Death is the color of earthworms to me. It squiggles too.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: tinkerbell on September 15, 2007, 03:14:59 PM
Post by: tinkerbell on September 15, 2007, 03:14:59 PM
White, peaceful, noiseless, melodrama- free ::)
tink :icon_chick:
tink :icon_chick:
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: Nero on September 15, 2007, 04:17:01 PM
Post by: Nero on September 15, 2007, 04:17:01 PM
Quote from: Rebis on September 15, 2007, 02:05:58 PM
Death is the color of earthworms to me. It squiggles too.
Care to elaborate on that, Reebs? :laugh:
Quote from: Tink on September 15, 2007, 03:14:59 PM
White, peaceful, noiseless, melodrama- free ::)
tink :icon_chick:
Interesting. That's what prompted the question - some say death is white. White does represent peace.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: katia on September 15, 2007, 08:00:00 PM
Post by: katia on September 15, 2007, 08:00:00 PM
speaking from a western perspective, black is generally equated with death. black (the entire grayscale actually) is a tint, not a color. so death imo has no color.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: RebeccaFog on September 15, 2007, 09:41:57 PM
Post by: RebeccaFog on September 15, 2007, 09:41:57 PM
Death is brown & black & is as alive as the cosmos. There is no such thing as complete stillness even in death.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: Jeannette on September 15, 2007, 09:52:35 PM
Post by: Jeannette on September 15, 2007, 09:52:35 PM
I'm told black and dark colors, but I'm going to say white as I'm reaching the pearly gates.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: Christo on September 16, 2007, 03:33:25 AM
Post by: Christo on September 16, 2007, 03:33:25 AM
sky color. like light blue.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: Butterfly on September 16, 2007, 06:05:37 AM
Post by: Butterfly on September 16, 2007, 06:05:37 AM
They say that death is the beginning of an after life. So since green is my favourite colour, I think green makes sense. ;)
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: Jay on September 16, 2007, 10:40:23 AM
Post by: Jay on September 16, 2007, 10:40:23 AM
Black is the colour that I wold associate with death
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: evelynaGR on September 16, 2007, 01:38:55 PM
Post by: evelynaGR on September 16, 2007, 01:38:55 PM
Black is too sexy to be the death colour!!!
The colours evolving bad feelings for me are: purple - dark magenta - pale violet red
http://www.keller.com/html-quickref/4a.html
The colours evolving bad feelings for me are: purple - dark magenta - pale violet red
http://www.keller.com/html-quickref/4a.html
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: NickSister on September 16, 2007, 05:03:10 PM
Post by: NickSister on September 16, 2007, 05:03:10 PM
Black for me represents a nothingness, so for me black is too bleak a color for death. Maybe it works for the living in that things are (usually) bleak when someone passes away. But when I die I hope It is represented by white. White light is made up of all the visible wavelengths so it is a complete thing. When I die I hope to become part of this completeness.
(actually I'm hoping Dr Who will turn up in his Tardis..so blue would be good too)
(actually I'm hoping Dr Who will turn up in his Tardis..so blue would be good too)
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: cindianna_jones on September 16, 2007, 11:12:25 PM
Post by: cindianna_jones on September 16, 2007, 11:12:25 PM
Light is what you will "see" as your brain is starved of oxygen. So that's the color I'm going with.... "light".
Cindi
Cindi
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: Blanche on September 17, 2007, 02:25:52 AM
Post by: Blanche on September 17, 2007, 02:25:52 AM
Yellow like the sun. One of the best books on colour preference and emotional states, if you can find a copy, is "The Luscher Colour Test", based on the work of Professor Luscher at the University of Basel in Switzerland.
If you do find a copy make sure it stll has the two pages of coloured patches so you can do the self-test.
If you do find a copy make sure it stll has the two pages of coloured patches so you can do the self-test.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: Jaiden on September 18, 2007, 12:05:41 AM
Post by: Jaiden on September 18, 2007, 12:05:41 AM
I associate black, white and gold with death.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: buttercup on September 18, 2007, 12:30:25 AM
Post by: buttercup on September 18, 2007, 12:30:25 AM
I associate black with death, like walking into a dark tunnel of complete blackness. White also represents peace to me, so that is the light eventually at the end of the long walk through the tunnel to eternity. :)
Quote from: NickSister on September 16, 2007, 05:03:10 PM
(actually I'm hoping Dr Who will turn up in his Tardis..so blue would be good too)
I love Dr Who!! I'd hitch a ride on the Tardis any day. ;D
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: King Malachite on March 20, 2012, 09:24:03 PM
Post by: King Malachite on March 20, 2012, 09:24:03 PM
Black, grey, white, and red