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If we'd been together in life for years, why not also in death? I'm not talking about someone who I've spent only a year with, or even five. But twenty? Twenty-five? More?
Sure, I could see doing that. It's not like we'd have anyone to miss us.
I'm referring to that English musician who recently committed suicide, hand in hand, with his wife?
I had planned something like that with my last partner who passed away, but I was talked out of it in the end. There have been many a time I have regretted not going hand in hand to the afterlife with a loved one.
Anyone else been in a situation like that, regretted it afterwards?
I know in India it's not unheard of for a woman to throw her body into the funeral pyre of her husband.
If you really, really loved someone, and spent many glorious years or times with this person, would you consider joining them or not, at some point in time?
I personally wouldn't ever take my own life. Yes, when a loved one is dying it's a horrible feeling of impending loss but, you can't really believe that if you die together at your own hand that you head into the afterlife together too. I don't believe that would happen. I think if tragically two partners died in some kind of airplane crash, or car crash then yes, maybe but no one knows what happens when you die anyway - why take that chance?
Nevermind the fact that deciding to take your own life is an extremely selfish gesture and you greatly affect other lives as well. The whole situation just isn't right.
If there was an afterlife and we'd be there together too, I would consider it. But I don't believe in afterlife (or anything else) so I'd say no, I would not choose to die with my DH.
I would love to go the same time my wife does, but would I make myself go or have it naturally and later......good question. This really reminds me of that movie, The Notebook, with James Garner and Gena Rowlands where, at the end of the movie, he joined her in bed and they passed-away together. Wife and I both had tears in our eyes! We are an older couple (60/61) have do think about death at times and how we would love to go together-next to each other-holding hands.
If we'd been together in life for years, why not also in death? I'm not talking about someone who I've spent only a year with, or even five. But twenty? Twenty-five? More?
Sure, I could see doing that. It's not like we'd have anyone to miss us.
The musician himself was growing blind and deaf at 85, the wife was given 2 weeks to live because of her cancer. She was 74. They drank a bit of fluid in a building run by Dignitas (Dignity in Dying) group.
Personally, I'm not sure. If I was terminally ill like this wife, then why not. Otherwise, I have other people to take care of and just leaving them because of my preoccupation with the romantic ending, nope.
The musician himself was growing blind and deaf at 85, the wife was given 2 weeks to live because of her cancer. She was 74. They drank a bit of fluid in a building run by Dignitas (Dignity in Dying) group.
Personally, I'm not sure. If I was terminally ill like this wife, then why not. Otherwise, I have other people to take care of and just leaving them because of my preoccupation with the romantic ending, nope.
I have no dependents and no family so I don't think anyone would miss me enough not to be able to live without me.
I have tried to choose my life so I don't have a problem with choosing my death too. I don't think it's so much a Romantic preoccupation as being quite rational in a way and deciding what is right for you .
I agree that suicide is in many ways a selfish act but when you have nobody depending on you I really don't see the problem. At the end of the day it is our life, our body and if it is a considered and rational decision then it seems perfectly acceptable to me.
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