Hope This Will Not Offend You Out There.

[TWR]

When you hear about friends Young / Older passing, does it make you wonder when your time is up? In our local paper each week I read about So & So passing, that's what made me put this post in.

[237SJ]

Yes, especially now I have lost both parents. I`m next..and the mortality rate among my colleagues is dreadful, they are dropping like flies.

[TWR]

As a few other's T

[Quoi]

I dont have a problem with installing my ethereal upgrade as long as it doesnt come from Microsoft.

[jennyjoan]

good morning - I do wonder why as gness' and few others mothers are living to a ripe old age with no quality when I and few your others had friends who had everything to live for (the ones that I know amongst others) 15,kids 33,kids 52 and 54 - their grandchildren were their world. I truly wonder at that.

My own mother died at 68 and dad at 65 but I will tell you one thing my mother loathed loathed being even 68 and was willing to go =- she did have cancer and died in my arms but whilst I was crying and holding on to her there was a "pulling away" from me in her stance. She was happy to go.

[woofgang]

I want about another 10 years so I can outlive my dogs, after that i don't care.

[quinie]

Must admit I read the deaths column in the local paper every morning.A friend thinks I'm being morbid but not so.I like to send a sympathy card. Like Retrochic I'm more concerned with how not when.I'm 84 so count myself blessed when so many of my family and friends have died some at a very young age.

[Old_Geezer]

I wonder occasionally anyway. But folk I know personally dying is an obvious trigger point. I don't tend to read obits unless someone tells me of one I would know of. But when one's time is up, it's up. Whether it's oblivion or a different realm of existence, to the best of my knowledge it is unavoidable. So it isn't going to worry me in the present.

[chaptazbru2]

I'm with you woof, I don't want to leave my dog either, nobody would care for him the way I do. A very, very dear and close relative has just been diagnosed with vascular dementia and it's made me more aware of my own mortality now.

[zebo]

I recall when my cousin's husband died being aware that my row on the family tree was now dying and being a bit shocked.

[jennyjoan]

chaptazru - my friend feels the same - nobody would truly look after her dog like she does so her plan is that when she croaks - she wants the dog pts. She has given this instruction to somebody.

[kylesmum]

My only concern is , as my children lost their Dad relatively young and tragically i'd hate them to have a double whammy whilst they are still so young.
That worries me quite a lot. I'd rather go the way he did when I had to go though, instantly, doing what I loved. (or in my sleep otherwise).