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" If, for some reason your life functions ceased, my most precious one, I would collapse, I would draw the shades and I would live in the dark. I would never get out of my slar pad or clean myself. My fluids would coagulate, my cone would shrivel, and I would die, miserable and lonely. The stench would be great."
Coneheads put it best. Not just a comedy. Btw this is when Beldar tells his wife what would happen to him if he died.
LOLOLOLOLOL - yeah, that's a great description of how my husband would react I'm sure
I think it's really sweet and yes I have thought of this and seen it. If the couple really loves each other (sadly many don't) then when one of them dies the other often dies not long after because they are so heartbroken.
Sometimes. That happened to my neighbors. One died and the other died not even a week later. OTOH my grandfather died when he was only in his 60s and my grandmother lived until she was almost 91. I don't think she didn't love him, but she was very exuberant about life in general and wanted to keep living and keep his memory alive in her.
I don't know what I would do. I had a nightmare about this once: my SO had cancer and it couldn't be treated, and I was screaming at the doctors and nurses to take whatever organs, blood, tissue, whatever they needed from me to save him. I would do anything for him. However, I'm like my grandmother in that I really enjoy living, whereas my SO is more melancholy and reserved.
Bummer. Don't even start with the whole Alzheimers thing. That's my worst nightmare. I don't think I can survive watching my wife slowly forget me because of a disease. Everyday all you have is the knowledge that your spouse is forgetting more and more of the love you shared over the years. If it was me, I think i'd rather die early in the disease than eventually die never remembering the love we have for each other. Let alone putting the children we'll have through the experience. Scary.
Bummer. Don't even start with the whole Alzheimers thing. That's my worst nightmare. I don't think I can survive watching my wife slowly forget me because of a disease. Everyday all you have is the knowledge that your spouse is forgetting more and more of the love you shared over the years. If it was me, I think i'd rather die early in the disease than eventually die never remembering the love we have for each other. Let alone putting the children we'll have through the experience. Scary.
That's something I think about too. Alzheimer's/dementia runs in my family on my Grammy's side, although she died sharp as a tack. At a certain point my SO and I will have to have a discussion on how he should handle it if that happens to me.
And when the day comes that we must fight to the death, the winner shall be the loser. For they must experience an existence incomplete for the remainder of their life.
Beautifully said.
I would hope to die before my husband. I have absolutely no interest to live alone without him. We've been together 30 years, since we were both 16. Neither of us has ever been with another and have never been apart a single night in two decades.
I would hope to die before my husband. I have absolutely no interest to live alone without him. We've been together 30 years, since we were both 16. Neither of us has ever been with another and have never been apart a single night in two decades.
Wow, that's pretty unusual! So you never travel separately, or for either of your jobs? Amazing!
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Btw this is when Beldar tells his wife what would happen to him if he died.
