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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
I certainly dont want the pain or agony of dying. But I dont fear what comes next. I have few regrets to keep me here and I have ticked the boxes I need to. As we get old, the law of diminishing returns kicks in and it takes more and more work to hang on to less and less of ourselves..😷
swirlie · 31-35
@whowasthatmaskedman
I've seen your last sentence played out in real time so very often among many people I've known, but have never really thought of what you speak of before in the terms you have articulated your own experiences. Yet it's so very true and yet so very insidious as what you speak of actually starts at a younger age but goes unnoticed until it's own truth becomes obvious and totally unavoidable.
I've seen your last sentence played out in real time so very often among many people I've known, but have never really thought of what you speak of before in the terms you have articulated your own experiences. Yet it's so very true and yet so very insidious as what you speak of actually starts at a younger age but goes unnoticed until it's own truth becomes obvious and totally unavoidable.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@swirlie Overall I have been fortunate. But I hope that when I reach that tipping point myself I will have the strength to deal with it on my own terms and not become a burden.. Having recently had to place my wife in care frees me to make that decision myself. But not this day..😷
swirlie · 31-35
@whowasthatmaskedman
I remember seeing a movie one time where a man lived alone up in the mountains and his greatest fear was dying and having nobody around to bury him if he died. His solution became to dig his own grave with a shovel while he was still young and energetic enough for the task, then he would sit in his own dug grave on a wooden chair he'd placed down in the hole with a ladder leading down to it anytime he wasn't feeling well, just in case he didn't wake up!
He referred to his idea as his 'pre-arranged funeral', which actually made sense in a way!
I remember seeing a movie one time where a man lived alone up in the mountains and his greatest fear was dying and having nobody around to bury him if he died. His solution became to dig his own grave with a shovel while he was still young and energetic enough for the task, then he would sit in his own dug grave on a wooden chair he'd placed down in the hole with a ladder leading down to it anytime he wasn't feeling well, just in case he didn't wake up!
He referred to his idea as his 'pre-arranged funeral', which actually made sense in a way!
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
