06-10-2014, 11:21 AM
(06-10-2014, 12:56 AM)crash Wrote: Sure. Comfortable with their own family meant with their partners, kids, if it happens. Friends and pets if it doesn't. My kids are independant and busy, they're not clingy. I don't think they'll have the time or inclination to be changing a diaper on their 90 year old dad. I don't want to hang around in a nursing home for a visit on my birthday and Christmas. Fuck that.
I reckon I'm healthy enough to be active into my eighties. If I fell off the perch then, it'd be ok with me. Not that any of us get a choice, well only those that choose the early exit door, but fuck that too.
Yeah, not everyone wants to get married and make grandchildren and there are a lot of other things to love and enjoy as we get older.
Anyway, I don't worry about death at all -- always been ready whenever or however it happens.
A century seems too long to be kicking around, to me. Still, I guess if the joys in life were still exceeding the pains and I wasn't a burden on others, I'd wanna hang in there til I naturally stopped ticking. But, I don't have any objection to people of advanced age helping that natural process along when their minds are ready to go and the body's not cooperating. Slow, miserable, lingering death isn't something that I see as the "morally-correct" way to go for everyone.