Of course we all get dealt a different set of cards, play out our hand differently, blah blah, but I'm sorry to see several posters suggesting that a short life is better than a long one. If life is a card game, we are all playing for what we want; physical and mental wellbeing, a bit of cash and a bit of love. You never know for sure when you're going to turn up a really great card, so, for Lucem F especially, it seems unwise to leave the table so early in the game.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
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.You ****ed enough bitches. You’ve read a lot of books. You’ve seen countless great concerts. You’ve travel
led all over. You enjoyed life when you were young.
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^ I think there's a false premise or something here, Occult. You seem to suggest that reading a lot of books, somehow detracts from the pleasure of reading the next one. I haven't really found that to be the case.
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OK so one of my old friends is now stage 4 and the doctors are like maybe 10 years but you’re a lifer. Chemo for life. How the **** could that possibly be worth it? Even when I see someone like 70 cashiering at the grocery store I think goddamn you must really want to ****ing live. But endless chemo? Then acting like cancer can hear you. Wear a t-shirt that says “**** cancer”. **** “cancer” doesn’t care. Cure my ****ing ass.
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^ Yeah, this is a circumstance that justifies co-operating with death. Someone I love recently decided not to continue chemotherapy because it made her feel so terrible. Instead, she chose to make the best of her remaining months. She was able to face the inevitable with dignity and quiet good grace. Not everyone gets themself a delusional t-shirt, OH.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
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80 is fine. I respect that.
I don’t respect wanting serious life extension. Once novelty loses its novelty it doesn’t matter what the next thing is.
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^ As you get closer to 80, you may find that the number will change. ;) The other evening my friend and I were trading opinions about living to 100.
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Originally Posted by [MERIT]
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People want to be alive because it is preferable to the inverse. Who wants to be dead? Not this guy. What good are you dead?
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^ Yep, I'm 100% with this good old common sense. And if I may be allowed to offer a piece of advice to younger members, I'd say: Don't presume that your later years will be less joyful than your youth. After all, when Mick Jagger was asked, in his mid-fifties, about sex, he said, "It just keeps getting better, doesn't it?"
If you have the good fortune to stay healthy and stay optimistic you can continue to have a great life - as per Chula's parents, by the look of them.
*Cue Cat Stevens* : "Look at me, I'm old but I'm happy..."
