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Fri Jun-22-07 08:19 PM
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What do you want to die doing? |
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my dad always said he wanted to die on the golf course, or having sex, preferably both. He died on the third hole...
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:20 PM
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1. Was that during golf or during sex? |
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:21 PM
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:22 PM
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:28 PM
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9. Well played, sir, well played! nt |
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:21 PM
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love... PPPFFTTT what else is there!!!!??????????
:party: :bounce: :think: :hi:
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:21 PM
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:23 PM
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6. watching the clouds go by from underneath my favorite oak tree |
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:01 PM
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:26 PM
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7. I just want it to be relatively fast.... |
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I saw my father waste away for two years from end-stage renal failure. His kidneys shut down and he had a heart attack one night, then lingered for almost two weeks as they tried to restart his kidneys and then had a final cardiac arrest.
My mother was relatively fine (for her age, which was 93 at the time...I was a change-of-life baby), had a heart attack three days before Christmas of 2005, and died three days after Christmas.
My father died, alone, in the middle of the night. With my mother, we turned off the machine that was keeping her breathing, we were all with her (not the triplets, they were just five at the time and pissed that they could not visit her in the hospital) and she went very peacefully.
Sounds like your Dad died a relatively happy man. Only being on the third hole probably pissed him off.
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:28 PM
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:hug: :hug:
I watched my Mom and father die....
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:29 PM
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:hug:
It's not easy, is it?
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:29 PM
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I'm still in denial of this event.
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:40 PM
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12. Playing the banjo on stage! |
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Or making love to my wife. Or both.
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:42 PM
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:43 PM
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or anything really that's not being a vegetable in a bed in a nursing home.
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:46 PM
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15. Peacefully and in my sleep, not screaming and crying like Grandpa's passengers. |
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:47 PM
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16. Whoa, talk about cryptic... |
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Sorry for that, Redstone.
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:49 PM
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18. What, you never heard that before? It's an OLD joke. |
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:50 PM
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Damnit, I took your post seriously.
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:55 PM
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21. You haven't learned yet to NEVER take me seriously, unless warned in advance? |
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:56 PM
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:00 PM
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24. You're forgiven, because I'm not quite myself tonight; my hand hurts from the surgery yesterday |
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and that's just enough pain to add to the daily burden that I begin to ramble because of it.
And I looked silly to Mrs R today (though she was polite enought not to mention it), drinking my coffee with my splinted pinky sticking out like a proper Brit poofter.
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:05 PM
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It was a long week for me...and my humorscope is down.
I hope your finger feels better. My asshole supervisor likes to hold his pinky out like a Brit poofter...because he is an asshole poofter, though not a Brit. He looks ridiculous, though I dare not say anything about it.
I hope that you heal quickly. :hi:
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:16 PM
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32. I picked the hand surgeon because he has his own operating room, therefore no danger |
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of those horrible staph infections that are running around the hospitals these days...it was kind of fun to watch him grind off the bone spur, though Mrs R could not believe I'd prefer to be awake and aware during the procedure.
Hey, it beats the alternative, which would have been a joint replacement. I got off easy.
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:48 PM
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17. Well, I guess having sex |
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but i wouldn't want it to be traumatic for my partner either :scared:
but yeah, that would be it, :D
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:50 PM
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20. I want to die having sex, while on my fourth martini and watching the original |
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Star Wars Trilogy on a 41" screen with surround sound and have Carrie Fisher watch my final moments....
TOTALLY
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Fri Jun-22-07 08:59 PM
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23. Having been very near to it |
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I just wanted to listen to some great rock & roll, talk politics and thank everyone who ever did something to make my life better in some way.
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:04 PM
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26. Three times, for me. Being that close DOES give you some perspective, yes? |
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:05 PM
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28. My dear Rising Phoenix... |
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In the arms of the man I love....after some awesome sex.....
Is there any other way?
It won't happen though...
*sigh*
He'll be gone before me.....
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:06 PM
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I want to die at the age of 95, shot to death in the bead of a 23-year-old Victoria's Secret lingerie model, by her jealous boyfriend after he walks in just after our 3rd round. :evilgrin:
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:08 PM
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30. best response I've ever heard |
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:27 PM
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35. Thank you, thank you, thank you |
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:08 PM
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31. Saying goodbye to my loved ones. |
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Hopefully giving them whatever closure they want.
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:20 PM
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34. Hopefully understanding and accepting death |
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Fri Jun-22-07 09:30 PM
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On a sunny Sunday morning.
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Fri Jun-22-07 11:55 PM
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37. consciously breathing... |
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my fear is knowing death is seconds away while alone
pain may be a challenge, deconstruction of consciousness a challenge, just how long into the death process will the "will" remain? If there is a will, and death is imminent then stay with *everything*, see *everything*, participate; connect with the breath, engage, exhale deeply, inhale... adjust
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