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Age and Death
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:00 pm
Is there a point in your life when you are just ready to die? I witnessed this with my grandmother. She really just didn’t want to live any more. Death scares the frick out of Perm and I’m hoping I’ll be “ready” when I’m old as frick.
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Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:00 pm to BigPerm30
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Is there a point in your life when you are just ready to die?
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I witnessed this with my grandmother.
Why did you ask the question then?
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:02 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Why did you ask the question then?
Cause I wanted to know if she was the exception rather than the rule???
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:02 pm to BigPerm30
I think it's easy to look at really old folks with limited mobility and cognitive function and imagine that you'd never want to live that way. But I think it's human nature to cling to life as long as possible, in whatever form you're able to experience it.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:03 pm to BigPerm30
You ever heard of suicide?
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:03 pm to BigPerm30
After I turned 21. If I make it to 62/65/67 things may change.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:04 pm to BigPerm30
Wife's great grandma has expressed a similar sentiment that it's her time and she is ready to die. She's 94, can't really get around too much on her own, and her husband died around 20 years ago.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:04 pm to BigPerm30
I reached that point in my early 20s
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:04 pm to BigPerm30
As a 32 year old, having seen how my grandparents lived their final years, I really don't see the point living past 85.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:05 pm to BigPerm30
quote:If I looked like Owlie?
Age and Death
Waiter? Check please!
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:05 pm to BigPerm30
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Is there a point in your life when you are just ready to die?
I believe it depends. If you are at a point where your life quality is that bad, I believe you can be ready. I have witnessed it also with close ones who were very sick with basically no hope to improve.
But then, what if you run into some thug who pulls a gun on you because he likes your brand new shoes and knows the easy way to own them is to kill your arse and take them. I can't see being ready for at that time.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:05 pm to craigbiggio
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You ever heard of suicide?
Nah, baw. Please show me.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:05 pm to BigPerm30
Like Louis CK said (loosely)
“Even people with REALLY shitty lives prefer life over death. If it was that bad they woulda just off themselves.”
“Even people with REALLY shitty lives prefer life over death. If it was that bad they woulda just off themselves.”
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:05 pm to BigPerm30
My grandma is 87 and she claims she's been ready for at least a decade.
Hell, she talks about it all the time now and just casually slips it into conversation.
She's one of those old people that's extremely healthy and still walks 2 miles a day though, so she probably has another 10 left in her. She gets mad when we point this out to her
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:06 pm to BigPerm30
My brother passed away in August. He was 49 and ready. Had fought colon cancer for 2.5yrs and was in pain and suffering.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:11 pm to BigPerm30
Theres a ton of silicon Valley tech billionaires that are actually investing heavily in anti-aging research and "cures".
Theres actually more knowledge on the subject than you might think.
Eventually in the near future there will be more people over 50 than under in America. It might prove fruitful if we could at the least extend our abilities to move our bodies and think into later years of life for a great deal of reasons.
Look up Aubrey deGrey. Bezos is personally funding a company called "Unity Technology" and then theres the SENS Research Foundation as well doing anti-aging research.
I also think a side motive to the research is humans populating the solar system. The time and distance it takes to traverse between planets makes human travel really costly and difficult. If we could improve human health and lifespans tenfold, those 3 or 10 year journeys to Mars and the moons of Jupiter doesnt seem so costly in terms of human life.
Just some stuff to ponder.
Theres actually more knowledge on the subject than you might think.
Eventually in the near future there will be more people over 50 than under in America. It might prove fruitful if we could at the least extend our abilities to move our bodies and think into later years of life for a great deal of reasons.
Look up Aubrey deGrey. Bezos is personally funding a company called "Unity Technology" and then theres the SENS Research Foundation as well doing anti-aging research.
I also think a side motive to the research is humans populating the solar system. The time and distance it takes to traverse between planets makes human travel really costly and difficult. If we could improve human health and lifespans tenfold, those 3 or 10 year journeys to Mars and the moons of Jupiter doesnt seem so costly in terms of human life.
Just some stuff to ponder.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:13 pm to jimbeam
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Like Louis CK said (loosely)
“Even people with REALLY shitty lives prefer life over death. If it was that bad they woulda just off themselves.”
It's because their mind and body arent the same and they know it'll only get worse.
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:13 pm to BigPerm30
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Death scares the frick out of Perm
Why? Does uncertainty scare you? Seriously asking, not being a jackass. You didnt exist before you were born and wont exist after you die. It's that simple baw
What worries me is not knowing how it will happen, not so much it happening. I want it to surprise me.
This post was edited on 12/17/18 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:13 pm to BigPerm30
I am not scared to die.... Ive lived a great life and when god wants me he will take me......
Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:14 pm to celltech1981
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Does uncertainty scare you?
Doesn't this scare a significant number of people?
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