When You Are On Your Deathbed

[nailit]

How do you think that you will view your life?
You didn't exist for an eternity before you were born and you wont exist ever again.
Will this make you have any kind of thoughts?

Or is eternity too scary a thought?

[shoota]

What?

[Calicogirl]

I hope I can die content. That I've loved people, been loved by people, lived a good life and made a difference where I can. I think if you can look yourself in the eye with the way you've lived and come to terms with your own mistakes and wrongdoings and the ill others have done you and you can die painlessly having led your best life, then hopefully that will be achievable. Death in itself is nothing hopefully to fear, only the way you die and whatever legacy you leave and the loneliness of those left behind. x

[Mamyalynne]

A few hours before my Mother died I noticed she was focusing on a particular are of the dropped ceiling intently - I asked her what was there.

"The film of my life and oh it has been wonderful".

[JimF]

The universe will continue to expand until the very last star dies leaving nothing from which to create another. This will be in approximately 30 billion years.

My death will be completely insignificant by comparison.

[Calicogirl]

Oh Mamy that's beautiful! x

[Baldric]

Never really give it a thought, could happen at any time but hopefully not for a while yet, I still have things to do.

[Mamyalynne]

I know, whether she could see anything there at all it didn't matter - I sat on the edge of the bed and stared at the same spot with her.

I once read a lovely quote...

I hope when I go I leave
a book well written,
a picture well drawn
a portrait well painted
and hearts well loved.

[ummmm]

That I tried my best.

[Peter Pedant]

there are various operations where the surgeon says
you will get a septicaemia and think you are gonna die

but you wont
actually I was quoted an acute death rate of 5 - 15 % within one month and so clearly the surgeon would be right only 85% of the time

and you examine your conscience
and go around after your recovery and say to the people you have wronged or think you have wronged - I didnt do very well on that one - please forgive me ....
and you also think - I wont do this again - going around with cap in hand. I cant do this again. I wont mis-hit and whimper I will bloody well get it right first time.

in my case - the witness lied - the lawyer knew this because one of my deaf kindred lip read the lawyer saying - "I cant mention this because it is in a document we havent disclosed"....the document refuted the line that lawyer was taking in court. When I pointed this out to the judge (yes stand up Judge Raymond Machell) he said he was so wise that even if it were true it would make no difference to his determination (verdict). That is: my point was by and large irrelevant as far as very wise judges go. [you will note he was one and I wasnt.] The accused man never worked again. 1999

This led to my permanently jaundiced view of the english legal system. Judge machell has retired on a Very Large Judges Pension. So some good came out of this mess after all thank god and god bless us all. and god bless our judges who are a bulwark against EUSSR and god knows what else ! amen

[derek-33]

would i do it all again,in my case a big NO

[Ken4155]

I would hope to be philosophical enough to say, "Well, that wasn't a bad ride."

[douglas9401]

We did exist, nailit, and will again, just in different forms.

[pansypotter]

too morbid too contemplate!

[Sqad]

Goes it matter Nailit? As far as how you view your life is irrelevant, as you have played the cards that you have been dealt and there is no second deal, whatever they say about re-incarnation.
We are all going to die.....there is no return, so get on with it and don't thinks so much about life and death.

[anneasquith]

On my deathbed , I hope I’m completely pain free or unconscious. Bit late to be scrutinising ones life. What’s done is done, too late for regrets .