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I don't fear death because I don't see it as suffering.
What concerns me at this point in my life is my diminished physical abilities.
I've lost both hips to Lupus, and while I'm able to walk now, I've already faced the prospect of spending my remaining years in a wheel chair.
I honestly think I'd rather be dead.
The things I love to do are getting more and more difficult all the time, so to answer the question of how close I am to dying, I give myself thirty years and that's enough.
Wow, I hope you get better.
I'm only 48, but I wonder sometimes if I will have enough time to enjoy life after I don't have to work anymore?
Maybe it really isn't something to worry about, but life really is short.
On the other hand, when my Grandma got into her eighties she was getting ready to go to the other side. Mainly because her health declined.
Maybe I'll have a different perspective once I reach 70. Maybe not.
Is it fair that rich, white males with access to the best healthcare live longer lives than the oppressed black male? Or that the Asian female outlives us all?
Not fair at all. If anyone outlives you, I suggest you get a good attorney and sue!
I remember talking to my aging father about long life. I'm thinking he was close to 80 at the time and quite healthy. I said something to the effect that he could live to be 100, and he said he wouldn't want that at all. He said he'd already done about all he wanted to do, and he didn't want to outlive everyone he knew.
He had surgery on a herniated disk in his late 80s and ended up in a wheel chair. That basically killed him, as he had little desire to go on after that. He and my mother celebrated their 65th anniversary together, and that was important to him. After that he went downhill fast. He lived as long as he wanted to. The last time I talked to him he told me he probably wouldn't see me again. He died a week later. I don't think he feared death; he was ready for it.
My late wife, on the other hand, died unexpectedly at 51. She had told me just months earlier that she did fear death. She was the epitome of good health -- ate healthy, dancercised and worked out on the treadmill daily, was slender... but she went without warning. You just never know.
I would like to live forever - even though a lot of City Data posters would like it if I were snuffed out today.
I figure I'll maybe make it to 65. I'd like to die of natural causes, but smoking probably diminishes that possibility.
Even if I could live to be an old man, it seems like that is still too short a lifetime.
I love life and would like to stick around a while. Too many good memories, good friends and so much to still do.
My parents are in their 70's and know that their time is getting limited. They still have a terrific attitude. How do they do it?
When people know that they are closing in on the end, do they have no regrets?
Are most seniors fine with it all?
I think I will have to go out kicking and screaming.
Or maybe I'll get hit by a bus. That would really change the way I always imagined my exit.
When I was younger I thought like you carefree,lover of life indestructible but those who love their life in this world will lose it [material things].When you get older the years start flying by friends and family die you sense your own mortality.You except it like the change of the seasons and I myself look forward to it as a new adventure or a higher involving experience.... a enlightenment.
Life as is death is a nature occurrence why fear it?
Well I very much do not want to die. I'm totally not ready. Maybe in time you get more ready -- as you see more people leaving.
My grandfather told me that he wanted to live a long time but it's not all what it's cut out to be as it gets kind of lonely. He said when you're a kid, you hear of some elderly relative dying, as you get older, you begin to see people closer to you go - your grandparents, great aunts and great uncles. After a little while it gets closer yet, your aunts, uncles, your own parents. But then pretty soon it's worse -- you're losing cousins, classmates, people you worked with. Next thing you know it's people younger than you. More and more you're the only one left.
Well I very much do not want to die. I'm totally not ready. Maybe in time you get more ready -- as you see more people leaving.
My grandfather told me that he wanted to live a long time but it's not all what it's cut out to be as it gets kind of lonely. He said when you're a kid, you hear of some elderly relative dying, as you get older, you begin to see people closer to you go - your grandparents, great aunts and great uncles. After a little while it gets closer yet, your aunts, uncles, your own parents. But then pretty soon it's worse -- you're losing cousins, classmates, people you worked with. Next thing you know it's people younger than you. More and more you're the only one left.
You've noticed that too have you? I am the only one left of my parent's family, and many of my friends and people I worked with are gone, but then I'm also just lazily circling the drain.
Waiting for someone to make this topic political - or controversial...
Well, if Obama and the liberals stay in charge none of us will make it to 65 like the OP hopes. We'll all be put down after our visit to one of his death panels - either that or killed in one of his FEMA extermination camps.
You've noticed that too have you? I am the only one left of my parent's family, and many of my friends and people I worked with are gone, but then I'm also just lazily circling the drain.
My grandfather noticed it -- I haven't gotten to that point yet -- there's too many that I'm close to yet for me to want to leave.
I think maybe that is what gets people more and more ready though. Plus if you're in pain or feel like sleeping all the time anyhow, death wouldn't seem too bad.
Right now I'm not one of those pull the plug on me types.
My grandfather noticed it -- I haven't gotten to that point yet -- there's too many that I'm close to yet for me to want to leave.
I think maybe that is what gets people more and more ready though. Plus if you're in pain or feel like sleeping all the time anyhow, death wouldn't seem too bad.
Right now I'm not one of those pull the plug on me types.
Rule #1 Naps mean admitting your old...never admit your old.
Rule #2 Naps are for babies and old people
Rule #3 If you take a nap NEVER admit to it.......
This is one sad thread........
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