The Final End Approaches!

All I do all day every day is maintain, maintain, maintain. There's little time left over for fun or progress. When the day comes that there's no time or opportunity for good times, and no change in sight, that's the day I should question the value of my life.
It will be best then to embrace the inevitable if only for the sake of the eternal dreamless rest that I can look forward to.
Life is for the living. Just keeping up with laundry and bill paying is not living. Yet, now I think about it, it's all I've ever done.
But it's getting late and I'm probably cranky. Anyway, now I think about it, it's the thinking I do during all this maintaining that is fun.
 
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MoBeans said:
Don't count yourself out just yet. Mr Dr told me that the longer you live the longer you are capable of living. I'd say you are capable of going the distance. Looking forward to hearing about your 100th birthday party!
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I was listening to an interview with a group of medical experts talking about supercentenarians (citizens who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age). Oddly, but maybe not so oddly if you think about it, an 80 year old has a better chance of making it to 100 than a 60 year old. I'll let people think about it, rather than try to explain why since it was a year ago when I understood it so clearly.
 
Paladin1950 said:
Nothing. As you get older, you realize that it's just a part of life. I've been working in nursing homes since 1996, I've seen so many people passing away over the years. Some are not in control of their faculties, so they never think of dying. Others who are more with it mentally, are aware that most of their lives are behind them. They know they will pass away, in the near future, but don't seem to worry about it. Why should they? There's nothing they can do about it. They've come to terms with it. Besides, they know when they do die, they will be reunited with their family members that have already passed on.
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This is a nice post.
 
You might live much longer than you think. People live past a 100 nowadays. If possible, don't dwell on it but just enjoy the life you have now. Hopefully, you still have family and friends to socialize with. Hopefully, you have hobbies you enjoy. If you are wishing for death, as I have known a few people who have wished for the end to come, because of health reasons, then death should be a welcome end to your life. And if so, you will be, I'm sure re-united with everyone in heaven.
 
JustDave said:
I was listening to an interview with a group of medical experts talking about supercentenarians (citizens who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age).
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Just something about the interview I wanted to expand on. They also interviewed a few supercentenarians by phone, six or seven of them. Some were still working, and a couple were actually managing their own businesses. Their ability to articulate, and their voice quality sounded like people in their 50s who were very interested in their lives and activities.
 
Iā€™m 81 now and have been thinking that I would like to live until Iā€™m 85.
But like they say you never know ahead of time when your number comes up.
The problem with getting old is that you have never been old before so you donā€™t know all about it.
Maybe somebody should write a book about what to expect when we grow old.
 
GP44 said:
Iā€™m 81 now and have been thinking that I would like to live until Iā€™m 85.
But like they say you never know ahead of time when your number comes up.
The problem with getting old is that you have never been old before so you donā€™t know all about it.
Maybe somebody should write a book about what to expect when we grow old.
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Didn't you know the aging and dying processes by observing your parents or grandparents or close relatives?
 
oscash said:
I believe there is more after death. I know my parents will be waiting for me and welcoming me home. There has to be more because what's the use of this life's long journey and nothing at the end?
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I found this song when I was looking for songs for my dad's funeral 2 years ago.


That's how I imagine him now. Chilling with his parents. He now met his son. His dog from 60 years ago.
 
OldOld said:
Didn't you know the aging and dying processes by observing your parents or grandparents or close relatives?
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No! Both of my parents seemed to have had fewer problems than what I have and were relatively active until the day they died.
They didnā€™t have the advantages of modern medicine that make you suffer longer and make you go for office visits and take recommended tests and procedures all of the time.
Seems like the whole world has changed since their generation.
Anyway it is the more personal things that happen that they wouldnā€™t mention like staying regular and how our bodies change as we age.
 
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JustDave said:
I'm experiencing that too. It's something you only do once. I'd probably give myself a C+ for handling it.
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I donā€™t think my parents and grandparents had the benefit of modern medicine like we have now.
We see doctors all of the time and have tests and procedures for things that our parents probably never heard of.
 
GP44 said:
No! Both of my parents seemed to have had fewer problems than what I have and were relatively active until the day they died.
They didnā€™t have the advantages of modern medicine that make you suffer longer and make you go for office visits and take recommended tests and procedures all of the time.
Seems like the whole world has changed since their generation.
Anyway it is the more personal things that happen that they wouldnā€™t mention like staying regular and how our bodies change as we age.
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If you feel the aging and dying process is worsen with the modern medicine, you can always decline medical treatment and let your health run its own course. It's your right.
 
OldOld said:
Didn't you know the aging and dying processes by observing your parents or grandparents or close relatives?
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Don't think comparisons work
Older brother dead at 45 parents dead before collecting Soc. Sec. Other two younger brothers dead early 60's.

I celebrate age 85 pretty soon.

Live life doing fun stuff & enjoying everyday. Not concerned about when the time comes to be cremated
 
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Knight said:
Don't think comparisons work
Older brother dead at 45 parents dead before collecting Soc. Sec. Other two younger brothers dead early 60's.

I celebrate age 85 pretty soon.

Live life doing fun stuff & enjoying everyday as per my directive when the time comes not cremated
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Thatā€™s about the same here. Dad died and they just called it heart failure. Mom died when something let go in her abdomen at 85 years old. Then my sister of pancreatic cancer. A brother of pneumonia and Covid.
Then my last family member ten year younger brother died of massive heart attack.
Sometimes I think that nieces and nephews resent the fact that Iā€™m still around.
I donā€™t think they realize how much I mourn the loss.
 
GP44 said:
Thatā€™s about the same here. Dad died and they just called it heart failure. Mom died when something let go in her abdomen at 85 years old. Then my sister of pancreatic cancer. A brother of pneumonia and Covid.
Then my last family member ten year younger brother died of massive heart attack.
Sometimes I think that nieces and nephews resent the fact that Iā€™m still around.
I donā€™t think they realize how much I mourn the loss.
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No way to know when so thinking about death is about as useless as a pocket on the back of a shirt.
 
No one really knows when they will die. The only thing we do know is that we CEASE TO EXIST at death and can never feel pain, suffer financially or socially or be disabled. I think that everyone over age 70 or having a terminal illness should be allowed Medical Aid In Dying (MAID). 12 American states have MAID as well as many nations other than the USA.
 
Mitch86 said:
No one really knows when they will die. The only thing we do know is that we CEASE TO EXIST at death and can never feel pain, suffer financially or socially or be disabled. I think that everyone over age 70 or having a terminal illness should be allowed Medical Aid In Dying (MAID). 12 American states have MAID as well as many nations other than the USA.
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So we all have options to get it done in those 12 states or in those other countries.
 
Mitch86 said:
No one really knows when they will die. The only thing we do know is that we CEASE TO EXIST at death and can never feel pain, suffer financially or socially or be disabled. I think that everyone over age 70 or having a terminal illness should be allowed Medical Aid In Dying (MAID). 12 American states have MAID as well as many nations other than the USA.
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First, these programs are rich with the potential for abuse.
Second, are we so devoid of character today that we must be coddled by government through every step of our lives from birth through death?
Third, aren't we taxed enough already?

**Ask not what your country can do for you ā€“-ask what you can do for your country. --John F. Kennedy**
 
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