And, though trickier, dying people should be allowed to decide how much consciousness they want. Whatever the case, the dying person should decide.

Sometimes a dying person wants solitude sometimes they want friends and family around. It feels more fresh and engaging with every listen and has held up as a remarkable piece of art. Decide how social and how alert they want to be. It’s about spending quality time together and creating memories. For other people it’s about times with family, friends, and those who are significant to them. It’s about tidying up loose ends in their lives. The corresponding album is rhythmic, primal and expansive, and is a gloomy-post-punk masterpiece-a mediation on death, loss and existence. Hospital chaplain, Fr Peter Harries, says a good death may involve reconciliation with God or family members. In 2008, Have A Nice Life released their now cult classic Deathconsciousness LP to a whimper and critical non-interest. Blurring the lines between novella, liner notes, and academic text, the zine itself presents an engrossing narrative. Have a Nice Death is a highly addictive platformer with roguelike elements, in which we traverse an interesting world and fight enemies.

Rhythmic, primal and expansive, DEATHCONSCIOUSNESS offers a meditation on death, loss and unrequited love, with repeated listens revealing new layers of depth and meaning. The 75-page booklet accompanying the deluxe format of Deathconsciousness details the dark and forgotten history of the Antiochean cult. See all 3 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Now, longtime HANL collaborator The Flenser will reissue Deathconsciousness on the long-requested CD format, with a deluxe packaging option, including the lengthy accompanying zine and housed in a heavy box. Seamlessly blending shoegaze, post punk, new wave, industrial and noise with unparalleled depth and weight, the album was originally released by Enemies List Home Recordings founded by HANL members Dan Barrett and Tim Macuga.

Six years after its release the band followed up with 2014’s stunner The Unnatural World, and by then Deathconsciousness had become a force of influence and fanatic obsession. In 2008, Have A Nice Life released their now cult classic Deathconsciousness album to a whimper and critical non-interest.

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