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My moms last coherent words were "God is great". I hope I can go with that kind of peace.

I just hope that Karma thing is BS.



mike r

Yes in a way but, it will happen like it or not.

Not as much as the people who ride with me.

Not afraid at all, but I’d prefer to hold off a bit. 😜

No. I'm afraid to watch that video though - cliffnotes?

I had stroke this past July 29. That put a whole new perspective on dying while laying there on the table while 6-7 people are rushing around getting tubes in you and pumping drugs into your body.

Back in the late70's I spent a night in a cardiac ICU ward.There six of us in there. In the morning I was the only one alive.That made an impression on me.

There have been other times in my life where I have been close to death, but I didn't have time to think about it because of what was going on. I got a little shaky after everything was over with though.

At this point in my life I am not afraid of death
I may change my mine just before it happens
Time will tell.

I am more afraid of rotting away in a nursing home than dying.

I used to think I wasn't afraid of dying until I saw my first wife laying in a casket with everything that was just completely gone. It put me into an existential crisis for a while and I'm still unsteady about it all. The only thing that gives me any solace about death is that everyone goes through it, including many people that I loved and cared about.

I just want to die peacefully in my sleep, just like my grandfather. Not yelling and screaming like his three passengers.

Im not afraid of dying but I am afraid of suffering. I witnessed to much of it..

Well mister, I had myself a damn good time.
I'm on dialysis, I should be long dead.

My mother passed from huntingtons. Talk about rough. Add to that everyone in her family hated her guts because she was the meanest, most spiteful person they'd ever met and no one would take care of her. I had been estranged for the vast majority of my life and ended up having to deal with her for her last years. My father may have caused it - I don't know or care. He would get to drinking and make her get out of the car at gunpoint, strip naked and walk many miles home. Then he would spend the evening wondering why the hell I thought that was a bad idea. If mom hadn't shot and killed him directly over my head when I was 5, I would have been obligated to kill him for what he did to my mom and my brother.

Jeebus. Everyone else repeat after me. "My life wasn't so bad."

Geno...I guarantee you, it will not scare you...it gave me a comforting perspective...the fellow in the video is a long time ER MD, he is/was also an ICU MD, and did a lot of Hospice care.

Preparing for the transit is penultimate.
The last step is unfathomable by Nature.

Well said.