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Agreed. Dying in your sleep, having been fed a good meal with good company, at a seasoned old age with your wife by your side is as good as anyone can dream of.
by GauntletWizard 4y ago
Agreed. Dying in your sleep, having been fed a good meal with good company, at a seasoned old age with your wife by your side is as good as anyone can dream of.
- hutzlibu 4y ago"as anyone can dream of" Viking warriors and co would probably disagree. Not the gloriest way to Valhalla.. (personally I rather care how good I live, than how I die)
- hardlianotion 4y agoThere's probably a point in life at which the relative importance of those concerns changes for you.
- hutzlibu 4y agoI doubt it, I have been close to death already and I know it can happen fast and allmost any moment as a surprise. Or it can come after a long, lone suffering, whis is of course the scenario everyone would likes to avoid.
- smcl 4y agoI don't think you're necessarily talking about different things. I mean sure at the moment you take your last breath it doesn't really matter. But it sounds like this guy lived well into his late 70s with a partner, a social life and the means to enjoy retirement. That's clearly preferable to contracting some kind of cancer in your 50s, suffering emotionally and physically (and, in places like the US, financially I guess) for years before dying. It's not something I like to think about or dwell on, however, and being overly focussed how you might die is not the best way to spend your precious time on this earth
- hutzlibu 4y agoSure thing. My point was just, that I focus on living before death and yes, his death sounds like the life he had before was quite nice. But I know there are people who actually care a lot about the moment of their death (like the vikings), which I do not.