Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What’s your End of Life...Exit Strategy?

I literally have tears running down my face, I'm crying laffin' 🤣🤣🤣

Depends on the circumstances.

You know that the death rate around here is one per person

I've been practicing.

I’ve lost two older hunting buddies in the last few years and now I think both went out as well as you could.
First one left a note on the kitchen table for his wife to find that said he was taking his hunting dog, who was getting very crippled from cancer, for one last chance to smell the birds or something like that, and he would always love her. So she instantly knew something very bad was about to happen and it was after all the bird seasons had closed in late February? He drove five hours to the spot we used to quail and chukkar hunt and buy the tracks in the snow he carried that dog about a quarter mile up the mountain to lone tree on a rocky outcrop overlooking the valley. They found him there next day holding his dog in his lap the dog was wrapped up in his jacket with a gunshot to the head. Coroner said he died of hypothermia. Found out later he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a few months before but hadn’t told anyone.
Second was hunting at the local deer club and called home to say he had just shot the biggest buck he had ever seen on the ranch. When he didn’t come home wife called everyone to go looking. His son found him several hours later slumped over dead from a heart attack. He had gutted and drug the deer a few hundred yards to his hunting jeep and sat down on the ground with his back against a tire and his rifle in his lap.

I don't care how I go. As long as it's not next to a chubby redhead with a masculine personality.

Start working down my enemies and "done me wrong" list of grudges to pay back as many as I can get to on my way out.

No chit!

None of this will happen.

Trying to find all those firearms you lost overboard?

Does that mean a redhead with a chubby is all good?

I'm thinking the easiest way to end it quickly would be to take medical advice from members of this site....

You do realize how many die each year from medical professionals, don't you?

Told my wife if something happens to me where I’m going and only getting worse. OD me and let me Ride that last one out to the heavens.
Otherwise I’d like to live a long healthy life with my wife and kids and go in my sleep.

That is my outlook.

There is power in what we speak. Good and bad.

My plan is to last until somebody puts my first great grandson in my lap. After that, I don't care. If I had to state a preference, it would be found dead, frozen in place, with the antlers of a big buck still gripped tightly my hands.

However, my guess is the end will be far more prosaic. They'll probably have to use a tranquilizer gun to get me out of the treestand.

The finally had to put great grandpa Elmer in the home, because they caught him out on a limb in his 100th year, trying to trim it with a saw. The problem was he was sitting on the limb he was sawing.

Prayers for peace and solace devnull. That a a load to bear you have on your mind and hands. Caregiving one's parents is not easy and I am so very sorry to hear about your son.

Good on your for standing up and taking these troubles on, I can empathize as I was primary caregiver for both my parents in their declining years. I have kidney troubles in my immediate family as well, oldest daughter is bedridden and her only outside exposure is via ambulance transport to dialysis those same three days a week.

One thing I would never do is use a firearm to end my life, that is traumatic to the living, and gives the libs another tic on the gun violence charts. I have worked too hard too long to preserve our Right to keep and bear them. Had I to choose to end my live it would be by other means, as easy on my few give a sh*t folks that remain as possible. Most likely I will suffer that widow maker heart and attack and go pretty quick. Wills are done, money left to do the clean up and haul off. Probably outlive the oldest daughter, Covid nearly got her a few weeks ago, the other daughter is an energy thief, got a living donated kidney before she ever had to go on dialysis, and is the least grateful person I know for all the sacrifices others have made for her. So she is cut out, her share to her kids under the son's admiration of any funds.

I do the best I can every day, I think that is our charge.

In my own bed, with a full belly and a pretty young woman's mouth around my c0ck, at the age of ninety.

I want to go out like my grandpa did. In his sleep, not screaming and crying like those people in his car!!

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