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Title: What colour do you associate with death?
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?
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
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.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
Post by: tinkerbell on September 15, 2007, 03:14:59 PM
White, peaceful, noiseless, melodrama- free ::)

tink :icon_chick:
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
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
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
    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
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
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
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
Black is the colour that I wold associate with death
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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
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
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)

Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
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
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
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.
Title: Re: What colour do you associate with death?
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

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
Black, grey, white, and red