06-27-2024, 02:50 PM
(06-27-2024, 01:58 PM)RockyRaab2 Wrote: There is that. On the other distal extremity, I am beginning to truly understand Rest In Peace.About 30 years ago, while caring for my rapidly declining mother, I had a conversation with her palliative care nurse. I expressed the desire to go quickly...when it was my time to go. She agreed that all people wanted to die quickly and painlessly. However, she said, over 70% of people die after weeks, months or even years of misery and debilitation. Rest in peace would be a blessing after that.
My lifelong credo has been:
"Existing is not living. I'm gonna live until I die. When I can no longer live...I will live no longer. If it's living that kills me, so be it."
Geez...how morbid for a fishing forum! I'd druther go fishing.