Discussion»Questions»Death and Dying» IF your quality of life were to change where is the line that would cause you to stop fighting to live and just let go? Why?
Interesting question. For me, I think it would be if I had a incurable disease, was in a lot of pain and unable to care for myself. Happy Monday.)
This post was edited by SpunkySenior at June 5, 2017 6:14 PM MDT
That sounds about right for me too Spunky. However if the incurable disease did not keep me in constant pain I could live with it. If I needed assistance with things but were not bedridden or immobile I could live with the incurable disease and also having people help me on occasion. I think. Hopefully neither of us will experience the need for that decision. Thank you for your reply! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at June 5, 2017 1:19 PM MDT
I think Spunky's answer was quite good...Mine is somewhat similar with a couple of tweaks. Thank you for stopping by WQ. Hopefully you will never need to make such a choice. :)
Hi RosieG and thanks for your kind response -- I mowed my lawn just now and thought a bit about your question and SpunkySenior's answer - - and now have just read your comment to Spunky. Yes, I think my answer might be pretty close to what both of you are saying here. Here's to good health to all! :)
Excellent my friend. Wouldn't it be a crock of fun if the 3 of us ended up somewhere in the far-distant future so we could continue this conversation and others into infinity? One can always fantasize. It's free! Thank you for your reply. Do you have a large lawn m'dear? If so do you ride one of those nifty lawnmowers I've seen advertised on TV.? They look like a lot of fun. My dad used to mow our lawn..before electric lawnmowers were common. It was a lot of work. Our front lawn was of average size but the backyard was monstrously big. He got a very good workout!:)
Average-sized lawn here, Rosie. I have a battery-powered mower advertised as one of the world's quietest mowers. People walk by sometimes and actually ask if I'm mowing the yard, ha! They think I'm planting seed or something, I guess- - it's pretty quiet. :) It's still a good workout on a sunny warm day.
Thanks for the info WQ. How large a size do batteries get? I mean we have D batteries. What size does your lawnmower take? I didn't know there WERE battery-powdered ones! I don't know a lot of stuff. An Answermugger told me about a battery-powered peppermill! Imagine that? Do they have battery-powered people? I think I'm gonna ask that question! L(
Here's a picture of the 24 volt battery it takes to run my mower. After a mow, I plug it in to an outlet until it's fully charged again. It's very solid, rather heavy and about the size of a small/medium lunchbox. It fits inside the guts of the mower as it mows. :)
Battery-powered people -- they'll be the last to admit they're battery-powered, I bet! :)
This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at June 5, 2017 1:47 PM MDT
People can say what they THINK they would do, but NO ONE KNOWS unless that moment is upon you. We can only speculate. I would like to think that I would give it up the minute I felt I could not be vital and felt like I was a burden. But who knows? I have not been faced with that.
I'm sure unbearable pain would do it for most people, but again, I have not experienced this horror.
I am not all that attached to life. I am here, I know I will be somewhere else, so death is just another road. Without a body to have to deal with. It might be a lot better. Depending on what you bring with you when you leave the planet. If you are a Trump, you may be in for a lot of pain and sorrow when you realize what a waste of space you were, but I am not dead, so I don't know exactly how it works.
I feel like if I really try to do my best and be nice as often as possible, that has to count for something.
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