re: Age and Death

I'm ready whenever it is my time. I'm not itching to go and therefore not suicidal. Yet I have been through enough in my life to feel I have lived well. Living the last 16 years with brain cancer has certainly forced me to consider if I am in my final days. Knowing that I will live the rest of my life with this malignancy and the associated struggles and pains combined with a much strengthened prayer life has allowed me to be ready whenever my creator calls me home.

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 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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or long before that.

Most people live in fear.
Now that you are temporarily available to consider the topic I'm offering real help.

1. Read the book, easy death.
I'm sure you can get used paperback ones from internet for peanuts.

Book comes at topic from many angles, and some are sure to be new to you.

There are 2 or 3 paperback editions.
Author is famous. One time guru, now dead.
Most of the ideas in the book is in Tibetan books and lore (oh that! of course!). but couched in terms of the pantheon of real and metaphorical buddhist teachers and ideas. The part that is not in Tibetan lore is key.

Easy death, in English by us born, brilliant writer.
Adi da.
You can thank me in a couple of years. The fear of death is as big a psychology topic as there is. I used to read a psychology book on death when I flew. After 9/11, no longer.
Fear of death is the shadow.