Proper Approach to Death?!?

Congrats @Mitch86. It's quite an accomplishment. I don't think anyone can prepare for something as final as death. I don't think of it. I find stories about ninety somethings and a hundred somethings breaking records uplifting because that is what I want to do. :giggle:
 

The important thing is not that you expire, but the way that you do it. Both my mother and my older sister, at different times, went to bed and didn't wake up. No pain, no misery, that is the way to do it.
 

horseless carriage said:
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An old man, on reaching his one hundred birthday, was asked by the local newspaper's journalist, what was the secret to his and his ninety-eight-year-old wife's health.
The old man replied "It's no secret. I've been married for 75 years. I promised my wife when we got married that when we quarrel, the loser has to walk for three miles. So I've been walking three miles every day for past 75 years! The journalist was impressed and asked{: "But how come your wife is so healthy too?" Ah! Replied the old fellow, "for 75 years every single day she has been following me to make sure I really walk the full three miles!
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That’s a good one. Unfortunately I have never been married, so I never had to deal with arguing with my wife. I often wish I had a wife. I get tired arguing with myself.
 
Manatee said:
The important thing is not that you expire, but the way that you do it. Both my mother and my older sister, at different times, went to bed and didn't wake up. No pain, no misery, that is the way to do it.
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My mother got Pancreatic Cancer. Age 91...5 months to live. She chose no surgery. Said all her High School friends had died and she just wanted to be in Jesus arms. Two daughters (me for one) cared for her. Hospice came during her final days. She said her Aunt told her when she was young that if she ever felt pain in her stomach then it was probably Pancreatic Cancer.

She never mentioned pain until the pastor arrived as she was a few hours from the end. We upped her dosage and then she was comfortable to the end. She was a classy woman all her life and even to the end. Everyone loved her. Pancreatic cancer runs in the family so if it happens to me then I hope and pray I'll go just like her.
 
Mitch86 said:
I recently hit age 90. From what I read on the internet, only 1 in 5 men reach that age and by age 95 only 1 out of 200 men are still alive. What should be the proper approach to this situation?

I'm just living each day as if I will live forever. I have no pain and no serious illnesses. I look at death as merely the end of all suffering. Since everyone dies in time, there are no cures for inevitable death.
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there may be many joys?
 
ah been thinking about this more and more!! - my personal approach has to been lying relaxing and thinking of all the good times I've had from birth onwards and who has gone before me and how I am so looking forward to meeting up with them again - simple eh??
 
Mitch86 said:
I recently hit age 90. From what I read on the internet, only 1 in 5 men reach that age and by age 95 only 1 out of 200 men are still alive. What should be the proper approach to this situation?

I'm just living each day as if I will live forever. I have no pain and no serious illnesses. I look at death as merely the end of all suffering. Since everyone dies in time, there are no cures for inevitable death.
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Way to go. Live each day as if you will live forever. I think you got everything in it's proper place. Don't worry worry until it worries you.
 

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