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re: Why do people want to stay alive so long?
Posted on 6/19/25 at 1:45 pm to BabyTac
Posted on 6/19/25 at 1:45 pm to BabyTac
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If heaven is what I believe, I can’t wait to get there.
if you're a Christian, you're supposed to be that heaven will ultimately be on earth and your job is to help make it. You aren't supposed to speed run this thing, baw.
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Posted on 6/19/25 at 1:56 pm to BabyTac
Mostly because there is always an upcoming season of a show I look forward to seeing.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:04 pm to BabyTac
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Why do people want to stay alive so long?
Self preservation is the most basic core instinct wired into our brain.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:06 pm to BabyTac
Have you selected the day you hope to die?
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:06 pm to BabyTac
quote:
If heaven is what I believe
Just because you believe it doesn't make it true.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:07 pm to BabyTac
My Dad is 85 years old. In the last year he has had pneumonia twice, has spent 4.5 months in a post-op rehab center after getting an infection in his knee that nearly took him out and is, as I write this, just finishing the 35th of 35 radiation treatment for throat cancer. Out of the last 12 months he has either been in the hospital or a post-op rehab facility (he is headed to another one tomorrow). In those 12 months he has also become wheelchair bound...can transfer to the chair and walk with something to hold onto for about 10 feet. Bastard has been the wringer. I went to see him in the hospital yesterday and he was hallucinating off and on about having to call the police about a nurse abusing a small female child in his room. In a moment of clarity toward the end of my visit he looked me dead in the eye and said "How's Georgia going to do this year". Thats one reason. I have no doubt that tough old bastard makes it through at least one more college football season, sitting in our living room, a fire going, game on the TV, a touch of brown water 'cause its good for his arthritis and he will, if capable, be cheering and yelling and cussing like he was 25 years old again. I know he is going to go someday and its going to nearly kill me when he does but I'll bet a couple of shots of that same brown water it ain't before the end of this CFB season....unless of course he kills over during a nail biter and if that happens we will both be, if not happy, at least satisfied he was doing what he loved and could do til the end....
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:07 pm to supadave3
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I’ll be fine to pass at about 60.
How old are you now? You have a wife? Kids?
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:09 pm to supadave3
Jesus that’s a pathetic outlook on life
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:12 pm to supadave3
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I’ll be fine to pass at about 60. It’s all downhill from there.
I bet you change your mind when you about 55 LOL.
I will be 60 next month. I'll be pissed off like nobodies business if I die before then. And at 60 80 ain't long enough by a damned sight. I don't want to survive my wife and certainly don't want to survive my kids but if they are still around as long as I ain't completely brain dead (my mom is more or less with dementia, do not want that) and I can get around a little I want to live forever. Life is fricking fantastic. At any age. My dad is 85, has been through hell the last year and ain't ready yet thank the christ....if anyone is who is healthy, especially if the have people who care about them, and they ain't happy about simply being alive they should get help immediately. Life is grand and short...don't waste a second of it...
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:13 pm to BabyTac
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BabyTac
Do you not have loved ones?
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:15 pm to SallysHuman
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Do you not have loved ones?
He’s a troll, nothing he shares on this board is in any way factual or real
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:16 pm to High Life
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Self preservation is the most basic core instinct wired into our brain.
For all but a few years when procreating takes over and even then its first and foremost for most animals. Even deer in the rut will run off if threatened....they are less cautious but the instinct to avoid dying is stronger than the instinct to procreate.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:19 pm to BabyTac
people gonna give you shite but i appreciate where you are coming from.
Seen enough folks in their late 80s and 90s. Barely able to move, or dementia running rampant. frick all that, id rather get struck by lightning while fishing and having a good time (hopefully late into my retirement but before i cant do anything) than slowly wasting away.
Seen enough folks in their late 80s and 90s. Barely able to move, or dementia running rampant. frick all that, id rather get struck by lightning while fishing and having a good time (hopefully late into my retirement but before i cant do anything) than slowly wasting away.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:21 pm to BabyTac
I do not at all want to die. But am I the only one who has seen a Hearst while driving to work and thought “at least he doesn’t have to go to fricking work today and deal with all this shite”?
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:23 pm to BabyTac
Stfu
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:32 pm to BabyTac
I actively helped people today.
I won't be doing that once I'm dead.
And I have two pets to care for.
I won't be doing that once I'm dead.
And I have two pets to care for.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:50 pm to BabyTac
quote:I found the perfect answer. Accidentally.
BabyTac
This is one of Malcoml Guite's poems:
I love the mullioned snug, the brewers dray
And all the tapster's tacit craft and lore.
To reach a village inee when skies are grey,
To stop out of the rain and through the door,
To fee the warmth, to tread the stone-flagged floor,
And sit beside the fire and take our ease,
This is the bliss our little life is for,
I'll have another pint of porter please.
Prince there's an inn that you have kept in store,
And given to St. Peter both its keys,
I'm on my way, but tell him, well before,
I'll have another pint of porter please.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:54 pm to BabyTac
quote:
Why do people want to stay alive so long?
Bible
Killing yourself is a sin
Killing others is a sin
As a long time Catholic that means Hell is full of OG nuns who beat the crap out of you 24 / 7 / 365.
No Thanks to that thought.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 2:57 pm to BabyTac
We keep the elderly alive too long with medicine and treatments. My parents are 90 and have zero quality of life. Now their kids are too old to take care of them and don't have the skills needed to provide care. Then there is the nursing homes that are very costly and depressing.
It's sad, really.
It's sad, really.
Posted on 6/19/25 at 3:00 pm to BabyTac
What is “ so long”?
This post was edited on 6/19/25 at 3:01 pm
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