Poll: How long ( in years ) do you have left before you die? ( Imagination )

How long ( in years ) do you have left before you die? ( Imagination )

  • 7

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 1-5

    Votes: 4 15.4%

  • 5-10

    Votes: 9 34.6%

  • 10-15

    Votes: 4 15.4%

  • 15-20

    Votes: 1 3.8%

  • 20-25

    Votes: 3 11.5%

  • 25-30

    Votes: 1 3.8%

  • 30 +

    Votes: 4 15.4%
  • Total voters
    26
My best friend since the age of 14 is currently in a situation where she very well may die.We are both 71. If you had asked her this question a month ago,I`m sure she would have answered "at least ten years." She is a veterinarian,still actively practicing in her own clinic-despite a debilitating stroke she suffered 6 years ago. She has-or rather had-Covid. She was hospitalized for 3 weeks,during which time she kept refusing to be admitted to the ICU for the oxygen therapy that she desperately needed,as she felt they would just intubate her and she did not want that. She finally agreed-but only after signing a DNI and a DNR. Well,it worked and she recovered-but the virus attacked her "weakest link",something the docs said Covid does. In her case,it`s her right brain,and she is now totally paralyzed on her left side. She has been moved to a rehab,but has told her daughter"If I die,know that I am at peace. Living like this sucks!"

My point is,no matter "when" someone thinks that they will die,none of us can truly know-or even have an idea,really.
 

Unknown. Now 73, minus accidents, am healthy and fit enough in most ways to live for decades while realizing a deadly disease like cancer or stroke or severe COVID-19 could happen any time. Both parents and 2 siblings are gone. As I grow older I also realize the end is approaching so am keen not to waste my time as I greatly value being alive. Our planet, our universe is immensely fascinating to this science person. Given a choice with adequate health, mobility, mental capability, and fitness would welcome living forever however realize such is not reality.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I have read many times how some very wise people have thought it is very healthy to imagine your own death. In my experience, it helps me appreciate LIFE.
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I have not heard that but I remember as a young girl in Catholic school the nuns told us to imagine ourselves lying in a coffin and I think she even said we should have a photo to remind us we will die...To this day I think that was a terrible idea and those nuns should have known better..:( I wonder if anyone else was taught that in Catholic school?

Perhaps I have read about too many NDE and OBEs but death no longer frightens me. I think I better take care of what I do not want to do because I will probably just have to come back and be challenged with the same over and over until I handle it..:rolleyes:
 

Paco Dennis said:
It certainly seems like avoidance to me. You have had a NDE and came out a new and "improved" human being. The practical side is imminent and should be prepared for the reasons you state, but life hurts a lot more than death.
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What it feels like to you does not equal my reality.
To be nitpicky about language: i would not agree that life hurts more than death. It is more work and delivers more pain then what comes after death. The process of dying, however, can sometimes be the most difficult part of living, depending on manner of death.

I've sat with individuals who were dying, including my own father, and comforted friends who had a loved one dying. You can't do that and not consider you own mortality and how you hope to deal with it should you have that mixed blessing of knowing it is imminent but being lucid enough to say your farewells. Just because i thought deeply about it long before most do, some 25 yrs ago, doesn't mean i'm avoiding death.

Having spent a good deal of time on it already, i feel a need to spend time enjoying my current experience, despite the emotional and physical pain it entails, instead of obcessing about the final curtain. If it announces itself instead of coming swift and unexpectedly i will likely welcome it as i know something of lies beyond.
We are all different i how we move thru all stages of being. No-one has right to dictate what anyone else feels, or when and how they do the emotional processing of the various realities of life: Loss, aging, death.
 
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chic said:
According to the ouija board my best friend and I consulted about the age of our deaths back in 1966, I will die next year. I'm very afraid and not ready at all for this so it will be difficult if it does happen. Unless God pulls me out of the mess somehow. I hope so. šŸ¤—
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Questions: Were others given a date, and how specific or vague were the dates? Have any of them passed on their predicted date or within the year predicted? (Tho it could easily be a case of believing the predIction they subconsciously fulfilled it).

Some things to consider:
From what i've read and heard from people i know who used a Ouija board (including one of my sisters when she was a teen) sometimes the spirits/entities that attend the call to humans using a Ouija board are mischievous or malevolent and like messing with living people. Giving a living human a supposed expiration date or time frame would be one way to that.

Reputable psychics, card readers and the like will tell you that what they perceive is a possible future and not inevitable. But if they demand additional fees to tell you how to avoid what they've predicted i would not consider them reputable.

I would hope that when next year, or the specific date if were given one, has passed you'll do a "Still here" post.
 
feywon said:
Questions: Were others given a date, and how specific or vague were the dates? Have any of them passed on their predicted date or within the year predicted? (Tho it could easily be a case of believing the predIction they subconsciously fulfilled it).

Some things to consider:
From what i've read and heard from people i know who used a Ouija board (including one of my sisters when she was a teen) sometimes the spirits/entities that attend the call to humans using a Ouija board are mischievous or malevolent and like messing with living people. Giving a living human a supposed expiration date or time frame would be one way to that.

Reputable psychics, card readers and the like will tell you that what they perceive is a possible future and not inevitable. But if they demand additional fees to tell you how to avoid what they've predicted i would not consider them reputable.

I would hope that when next year, or the specific date if were given one, has passed you'll do a "Still here" post.
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A very good doctor told me two years ago I would not live beyond 75 due to my failing intestine, not even counting my other serious health issues. A bit more predictive and reliable than a Ouija board. I am now 75. Iā€™ll let you know, on my next birthday, if I ā€madeā€ it. šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

In reality, as I already said, my bags are packed and I am ready to go. Just waiting for my ticket to be punched. šŸ˜Š
 
feywon said:
Questions: Were others given a date, and how specific or vague were the dates? Have any of them passed on their predicted date or within the year predicted? (Tho it could easily be a case of believing the predIction they subconsciously fulfilled it).

Some things to consider:
From what i've read and heard from people i know who used a Ouija board (including one of my sisters when she was a teen) sometimes the spirits/entities that attend the call to humans using a Ouija board are mischievous or malevolent and like messing with living people. Giving a living human a supposed expiration date or time frame would be one way to that.

Reputable psychics, card readers and the like will tell you that what they perceive is a possible future and not inevitable. But if they demand additional fees to tell you how to avoid what they've predicted i would not consider them reputable.

I would hope that when next year, or the specific date if were given one, has passed you'll do a "Still here" post.
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We were given a year, not an exact date during that year. And I do know about malevolent spirits and ouija boards. I saw the Exorcist too. :eek: :devilish:
 
I'm 74 years old and I'm hoping for 6 more but with my back problems, prosthetic knee, and a pacemaker I am not very optimistic.
 
Verisure said:
I'm 74 years old and I'm hoping for 6 more but with my back problems, prosthetic knee, and a pacemaker I am not very optimistic.
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I want to be out of pain and, with my back problems as well, I am always in pain. I want to get my Joey well settled, if that can ever happen, and then I want to move on. But my oldest son will care for his brothers so I can content about that and not worry.
 
chic said:
We were given a year, not an exact date during that year. And I do know about malevolent spirits and ouija boards. I saw the Exorcist too. :eek: :devilish:
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Movies tend to exaggerate, tho i had to talk my then boyfriend's roommate down from a 3 night anxiety attack after the 3 of us saw the Exorcist. A Catholic, he took it very seriously.

But what happened to my sister and in a house i moved into after someone fooled around with one of those boards in it were a bit more real.
 
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I judge my time on earth by the average age that my family members have passed away. That gives me about 10 years more.

I don't see doctors on a regular basis unless I have a problem that is causing me discomfort and I forbid any heroic measures to keep me alive.

My only concern is how I am going to die and what the level of comfort I will be given to see me through to the end.
 
I ignored this thread, the topic did not suit.

However, you got post by folks i read-so

For Pace and feywon

"If a clod be washed away by the sea,"
(by some guy that named donne, he died)

Oh yes, if I die in my sleep, please do not notify me.
 
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feywon said:
Most people are more scared of the process of dying then death itself, tho for some both are difficult to think about. i know that losing his mental faculties was hardest part for my Dad (metastatic cancer that included brain tumor). Once the mentally faculties totally gone it's harder on caregivers than the person but the process when you still have enough reason to know you're losing it, that is hard on the person. Thankfully Mom went quick from a stroke, she would have been even more put out by being incapacitated physically and/or mentally.
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So true. My mother is 89 and is in the transition phase of hospice. She has been near what is considered the end of her life for well over a month. I visit her often, and when I see the pain and discomfort she is in I just want her to move on, but the body is ready when it is ready. She still has her faculties and pleads to get out of bed or "go home". It breaks my heart, and it certainly reminds me of my own mortality. I have no idea when I will die, but I hope it is a quick process. Sorry to be a downer.
 
I wanted to be optimistic about it, I guess, so I said 10-15. I'm being really hopeful there, though. My doctor did not think that but some others with my condition have lived that much longer after diagnosis.
 

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