A depressing thought about your age

When I was younger and death was discussed I would use the term "if I die". At some point/age it changed on it's own to "when I die". I remember thinking I would be dead before I was twenty one, then it was forty five, then it was sixty. I am over sixty now so? As far as what happens after death I have no idea. I used to think about it a lot now not so much. The only thing I know for sure is Nature wastes nothing.
 
win231 said:
Well, I don't want to be left out of any morbid conversation, so......I'll just put this out there:
I don't like drugs & they don't always work reliably. But the Glock has a light 5.5 lb. trigger & is 100% reliable....... :ROFLMAO:
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Yeah, but I don't want to leave a mess. And bonus if my passing isn't investigated in any way...I have a small life insurance payout of $2000 to cover a cremation and a party. That may or may not pay, but the kids' actual inheritance is in a bank account, and my oldest son is co-holder, so they'll all get what I left to them.
 
Murrmurr said:
Yeah, but I don't want to leave a mess. And bonus if my passing isn't investigated in any way...I have a small life insurance payout of $2000 to cover a cremation and a party. That may or may not pay, but the kids' actual inheritance is in a bank account, and my oldest son is co-holder, so they'll all get what I left to them.
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I don't leave a mess either.
That's why I'd go in the back yard & wrap myself up in a blanket. :ROFLMAO:
 
I told my partner if I became terminally ill we needed to consider a place where assisted suicide is available. This was after I saw my mother go through such a horrible death.

He asked me if I was serious and told me I could just take a whole bottle of my sleeping meds to end it.
 
dseag2 said:
I told my partner if I became terminally ill we needed to consider a place where assisted suicide is available. This was after I saw my mother go through such a horrible death.

He asked me if I was serious and told me I could just take a whole bottle of my sleeping meds to end it.
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It's not that simple. When you take an overdose of drugs, your body will try very hard to save your life - by forcing vomiting along with other responses. That's why that method of suicide doesn't always work.
That's also why when someone is executed by lethal injection, 3 drugs are used. One of them causes paralysis & another one shuts down the nervous system to prevent that life-saving response before the one that causes death.
 
win231 said:
It's not that simple. When you take an overdose of drugs, your body will try very hard to save your life - by forcing vomiting along with other responses. That's why that method of suicide doesn't always work.
That's also why when someone is executed by lethal injection, 3 drugs are used. One of them causes paralysis & another one shuts down the nervous system to prevent that life-saving response before the one that causes death.
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Eww...
 
win231 said:
It's not that simple. When you take an overdose of drugs, your body will try very hard to save your life - by forcing vomiting along with other responses. That's why that method of suicide doesn't always work.
That's also why when someone is executed by lethal injection, 3 drugs are used. One of them causes paralysis & another one shuts down the nervous system to prevent that life-saving response before the one that causes death.
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I've also heard that; also, depending on the life-ending drug used, it sometimes does as Win says, forces vomiting but not death, and sometimes the drug works "well enough" to cause paralysis and/or coma but not "well enough" to cause death. So, as far as I'm concerned, too "iffy."

Don't know if it's true or not, but I've heard that an air bubble injected into a vein causes death. (Who knows if it's painful or not.)
 
win231 said:
It's not that simple. When you take an overdose of drugs, your body will try very hard to save your life - by forcing vomiting along with other responses. That's why that method of suicide doesn't always work.
That's also why when someone is executed by lethal injection, 3 drugs are used. One of them causes paralysis & another one shuts down the nervous system to prevent that life-saving response before the one that causes death.
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Well, if that lady who wrote that book about the death penalty had the info accurate, a person is still conscious when they're paralyzed- cannot move, cannot make sounds, etc. In my opinion that'd be one of the worst ways to 'go.'
 
I turned 55 today and I hope I live another 55 years. No need for me to calculate anything, I know one day I will take my last breathe. I am honestly not worried about it either. Sure I will miss my family dearly, but because of my beliefs I truly feel I will see them all at some point. There are only two consents in life and that is you are born into this life and you will die. So the way I go about all the stuff that comes in the middle is I try to live the best life I possible can.
 
Rah-Rah said:
I turned 55 today and I hope I live another 55 years. No need for me to calculate anything, I know one day I will take my last breathe. I am honestly not worried about it either. Sure I will miss my family dearly, but because of my beliefs I truly feel I will see them all at some point. There are only two consents in life and that is you are born into this life and you will die. So the way I go about all the stuff that comes in the middle is I try to live the best life I possible can.
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That, in my opinion, is the best attitude.
 
Depressing but true I think:

"There always [comes] a time when the world [is] done feeding you."
~~from "The Spires" by Alec Nevala-Lee in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, March/April 2018 issue
 
win231 said:
Well, I don't want to be left out of any morbid conversation, so......I'll just put this out there:
I don't like drugs & they don't always work reliably. But the Glock has a light 5.5 lb. trigger & is 100% reliable....... :ROFLMAO:
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unfortunately or fortunately depending on your POV, most countries can't just walk into a store and buy a handy Glock pistol, to have in readiness when we get tired of life :sneaky:
 
hollydolly said:
unfortunately or fortunately depending on your POV, most countries can't just walk into a store and buy a handy Glock pistol, to have in readiness when we get tired of life :sneaky:
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Another thing about gunshots aside from their extreme messiness is the awful loud noise they make, even with a supressor; I hate loud noises so no way would I want that to be the last thing I hear, uh uh.
 
Mitch86 said:
If you want to know how long you will live, use this CDC Survival chart for white males:

https://imgur.com/3e84CUe
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As I understand it, life expectancy is just an average. I am a white American male aged 76 with roughly a 10-year life expectancy, which means that half of the men my age now will be gone by age 87 and the rest of us will be still alive by then. Which group am I in? There is no way to tell for sure, but factors such as diet and exercise and current physical health, and many others have a role. A doctor once told me the best way to live to a ripe old age is to . . . choose your parents carefully! (That's a joke of course but it expresses an underlying reality.) So, all of these factors (especially the genes and current health) would say that I am in the latter category. Also, important to note is that the Covid-19 pandemic has now shortened the life expectancy tables for just about everybody. My two cents anyways.
 
Mitch86 said:
We...cease to exist at death..."Eternity" is just a dream.
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You say, Eternity is just a dream? Are you sure? How?
How can you be more sure of ceasing to exist anymore than the assurance of eternal life?
If eternal life is a dream then isn't ceasing to exist at death a dream?

"Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something"

So, it's a choice to believe one way or another based on faith because who can prove it?
I think everybody knows my choice so I won't go into it. You're welcome ;):giggle:
 
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JaniceM said:
Well, if that lady who wrote that book about the death penalty had the info accurate, a person is still conscious when they're paralyzed- cannot move, cannot make sounds, etc. In my opinion that'd be one of the worst ways to 'go.'
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They're still better off than their victim(s), but that's another topic.
 

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