Thinking Lately About Death
 

Every morning when I wake-up, I always thank God because I am truly blessed that I have my health, my kids are doing well, I live in a lovely community in a lovely new home, have a lovely ( mostly ) spouse and in a great financial position in my life.

But lately as each day passes, I realize that this wonderful dream of life will come to an end. No matter how healthy I eat and no matter how many marathons I still participate in order to maintain a healthy life style in order to maximize my life expectancy, my life will come to an end. Obviously as each day passes, we all become one day older and one day closer to death.

Does anyone think about their inevitable demise and how do you deal with the uncertainty of death? Thanks and be safe.

I just think of all the marvelous people we may meet like Mark Twain, Groucho Marx, Will Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, my late Uncle Bill Elsberg, etc.

Who knows what happens next?

Personally, I do not fear death but I do fear living too long. I was a RN, paramedic & coroner at one time or another in my life and saw a lot of death up close. Other than children, I rarely felt sad at deaths which occurred even at relatively young ages. I have seen what happens to a person as they age. If you live long enough it is (almost) a certainty that you will lose all of your mental faculties and control of your bodily functions. My father used to say that he didn’t mind getting old because so many don’t get the chance. Then he developed dementia & became so weak he lived his last 18 months confined to his bed. Maybe if he could have seen the ending in store for him, he might have revised that statement.

Pope Paul VI once said, “Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it I say! Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

Yes, but how many people, who can refuse life extending treatments, actually refuse the treatments? In my experience, not many.

Death is harder on the one left behind. Enjoy your love ones every day.

Yes, I thank the virus for that. but I don’t dwell on it. Most of us are on borrowed time anyway.

:coolsmiley: Big fan of Doris Day!!!

I don't worry about death I just Hope that when the time comes it's quick. Saw too many family members linger on in pain.

Seriously, when the pandemic got going last March I reviewed and updated my estate documents. They are now all in order. It was a wake up call. I know people who have died from COVID-19 and others who have had their health seriously compromised by it. Too, over the last few years I have lost some long time friends to death from other causes. Some were in their 50s and 60s. "Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think!"

I watch it in my rear view mirror and it creeps slowly closer each day...with each new ache and pain...with each dream that isn't all smiley faces and colored balloons. And every morning I get up(not as quickly or as steady) and greet the new day with a cuppa coffee and planning my day....when it ends...I won't know and look forward to a new beginning...I hope...:-)

we find comfort in being active in our church....at some point we're going to meet St Peter.

We're hoping that we will have given enough to charity and honored our parents enough so that we've accumulated enough points to get an upgrade.

we don't dwell on dying...if we did, we'd seek professional help

Death
 

7 months ago I was rushed to hospital and had a pacemaker implanted 8 days after that I found that I had Stage 2 prostate cancer, after 30 days of chemotherapy, 6 months of hormone therapy and 9 weeks of radiation I thought a lot about death.
I’ve decided whether I have one year or ten years that I ‘m living every day like it’s my last. My affairs are in order my wife will be able to handle everything I will not go to bed mad at my wife nor my kids over some meaningless issue that one might regret the rest of their lives.
Every day is a blessing live it to the fullest.

I've been thinking more about the new McDonalds..

That is NOTHING but very funny.

A little cross threading going on here.